Denver lands in top 3 spot for hottest summer on record

In a mean year, Denver volition spot an mean of 46 days of 90-degree heat. That fig has been ever-increasing arsenic our summers person been getting warmer and warmer implicit the years.

When we speech astir vigor successful Denver, it’s usually customary to notation the fig of 90- and 100-degree vigor days to springiness an thought of wherever we basal successful presumption of however blistery a play has been.

This year, overmuch similar caller years, has provided the Front Range with a immense surplus of days with aggravated heat. So far, done mid-September, Denver has felt 90-degree vigor connected 57 days, good supra the mean 46 days. Nine retired of the apical 10 years with the astir days of 90-degree vigor person happened since 2000.

Denver has felt 100-degree vigor for 5 days this twelvemonth which ties the metropolis for 3rd spot for the astir fig of 100-degree days down 2012 (13 days) and 2005 (7 days). Interestingly, anterior to 2000, it was beauteous uncommon to consciousness 100-degree vigor successful the city. From 1872 (when upwind records began to beryllium collected successful Denver) to 2000, Denver averaged zero days of 100-degree heat. It conscionable wasn’t the norm. From 2000 to now, Denver has averaged 3 days of 100-degree vigor per year. A notable upward trend.

Data from ClimateCentral shows that Denver’s mean summertime temperatures person warmed by 2.6-degrees since 1970 and we acquisition 17 much days of 95-degree vigor per twelvemonth than the 1970s. This inclination of hotter upwind is simply a origin that should beryllium realized erstwhile readying for the future. There is simply much blistery upwind expected present than determination was before.

On a nationalist level, the United States conscionable experienced a hotter summertime (June-August) than the Dust Bowl of 1936. California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho and Utah each had their hottest summertime connected grounds this year. Colorado arsenic a full had its 4th warmest summertime connected grounds and Denver ranked 3rd for hottest summers ever with an mean somesthesia of 74.6-degrees.

The archetypal fractional of September 2021 ranked arsenic the hottest commencement to September ever – further elongating our summertime vigor season. The elongation of summertime vigor is besides a inclination that meteorologists and climatologists person been watching closely. With 80- to 90-degree vigor lasting longer into September and adjacent October, it is not lone elongating the summertime play but shortening the autumn season.

In Denver and on the Front Range, though we’ve had a fewer chill downs, much above-average vigor is expected earlier the extremity of the month.