More than 200 flights were delayed and nearly two dozen were canceled at Denver International Airport on Saturday after early morning snow dusted the metro area.
Roughly 0.2 inches of snow was recorded at the airport Saturday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
As of 11 a.m. Saturday, 231 flights headed in and out of DIA had been delayed and 20 had been canceled, according to flight tracking software FlightAware.
No ground stops or ground delays were in effect at that time, but planes departing the Denver airport were being sprayed with deicing fluid to remove snow and ice, causing short delays on the runway, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Southwest delayed the most flights on Saturday at 89, followed by 75 United flights, 42 SkyWest flights and 10 American Airlines flights, according to FlightAware. Six other airlines delayed between one and six flights.
United and SkyWest each canceled seven flights scheduled to leave or arrive at DIA on Saturday, and Southwest canceled six.
Most of the delayed flights were trying to leave DIA, and most of the canceled flights would have arrived in Denver from other airports, according to FlightAware.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
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