Three out of the last five days have established new daily record highs. Today, we fell one degree short of Denver's all-time record high of 105. Here are some stats from NWS Boulder in regards to this sick heat wave.
ON JULY 16TH...AT 149 PM MDT...THE TEMPERATURE AT THE DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REACHED 102 DEGREES. THIS BREAKS THE OLD JULY 16TH RECORD OF 101 DEGREES SET BACK IN 2003. THIS 102 DEGREE READING WAS THE FIRST 100 DEGREE DAY SINCE JULY 24 2003. DURING JULY 2003 THERE WERE 3 100 DEGREE DAYS...JULY 13...16 AND 24. ALL
THREE DAYS WERE RECORD SETTERS.
TODAY...JULY 19TH...AT 2:52 PM MDT...THE TEMPERATURE AT THE DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REACHED 101 DEGREES. THIS BREAKS THE OLD JULY 19TH RECORD OF 100 DEGREES SET BACK IN 1934. THIS MARKS THE SECOND 100 DEGREE OR HIGHER TEMPERATURE READING THIS MONTH...BOTH NEW RECORDS. TOMORROW...JULY 20TH...THE FORECAST CALLS FOR A HIGH TEMPERATURE NEAR 100 DEGREES. THE RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR JULY 20TH IS 102 DEGREES SET IN 1939.
AT 1159 AM (JULY 20TH)...THE TEMPERATURE CLIMBED TO 104 DEGREES AT DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...MAKING THIS THE HOTTEST JULY DAY IN DENVER WEATHER HISTORY. THE OLD RECORD OF 103 DEGREES WAS SET ON JULY 8 1989 AND JULY 6 1973. NATURALLY...THIS SET A NEW RECORD HIGH FOR JULY 20. THE OLD RECORD WAS 102 DEGREES SET IN 1939.
THE ALL-TIME RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR DENVER IS 105 DEGREES SET ON AUGUST 8 1878.
And yes, today's record of 104 was established BEFORE NOON! That's just wrong!!! *LOL*
Forecasts calls for temps in the upper 90s straight through the weekend, which means its possible to see more records fall through Sunday.
Denver's Climatology Page shows that the record highs for July 21st through July 24 are 100, 100, 101, and 100 respectively. Highly likely any of those could fall. Currently (as of 2:00pm MDT), DIA has a temp of 99 with some clouds over the area, so it's unlikely we'll top the all-time record high for Denver today, but Buckley is reporting 104 right now with 100 at Centennial, so a few places along the Front Range are still in triple digits. Nothing like Lamar which was reporting 107! Eeesh! I can't wait til fall!
