Change is of course the one constant in Denver’s weather but come July, things actually get pretty consistent. The standard formula for a day in July is a sunny morning, clouds developing in the late morning and early afternoon. Come mid-afternoon, thunderstorms are rolling off of the foothills and into the metro area and the […]
Click here for the rest of the story.As always, an interesting week in Denver and Thornton weather history. Various severe weather items are noteworthy, none more so than on July 2, 2006 when a teenager wearing an iPod was struck with lightning. The music player actually contributed to the teen’s injuries by providing a direct route for the electricity into the victim’s […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Following a cool June, summer heated up in earnest in July. Temperatures warmed as they always do in July and were a bit warmer than normal and were coupled with typical PM thunderstorms. The first eight days of the month saw a few warmer than normal readings but nothing too extraordinary. We did also enjoy […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Colorado offers outdoor opportunities unlike any other state and while the summer heat settles in, photos of the amazing scenes across our state provide a view into why we love it here so much. The weather this time of year has a pretty standard pattern of quickly warming temperatures followed by afternoon thunderstorms that can cool […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Monsoonal moisture oftentimes streams into Colorado this time of year leading heavy rain and dangerous lightning. Our look back at this week in Denver weather history features many flooding events caused by the moisture and even some tornadoes. From the National Weather Service: 13-5 In 2008…a streak of 24 consecutive days of 90 degrees shattered […]
Click here for the rest of the story.As we continue in what is the hottest time of the year, we also begin to enter the monsoon season. Our look back at this week in Denver weather history shows that this can bring a wide range of severe weather. Most common are heavy rains which can lead to flooding but dangerous and damaging […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Monsoonal rain, dangerous lightning and large hail are all par for the course as we see in our look back at this week in Denver weather history. But, what about snow? Yes, you read that right. Denver did actually record snowfall on July 17, 1872 but because it occurred before official snowfall measurements began in […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Severe weather becomes a bit less common as we get further into summer but the threat is never gone as we see in our look back at this week in Denver weather history. Many notable events related to severe thunderstorms have occurred including flooding rain, tornadoes and damaging hail. From the National Weather Service: 29-15 […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Dangerous lightning, damaging hail and even tornadoes make the highlights of our look back at this week in Denver weather history. From the National Weather Service: 29-2 In 1990…almost a year to date after the record breaking heat in early July 1989…the third longest heat wave in Denver history started. From June 29th through July […]
Click here for the rest of the story.The month of July was somewhat a tale of two months in one. The first half was most notable for their unseasonably warm temperatures and relatively dry conditions. The second half saw a few days of heat but for the most part was considerably cooler and wetter. Thornton saw an average temperature for the month […]
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