Denver hasn’t had a 100-degree day this yr but, and odds are this is perhaps the primary time in eight years town doesn’t have one.
With the unusually wet begin to summer time this yr, Denver’s temperatures stayed cool longer, so town’s common temperatures in June and July, when probably the most 100-degree days occur, had been solely 75 levels and 89 levels, respectively.
To date in August, the common temperature has been 88 levels. By this time final yr, Denver already had 5 days of 100-degree temperatures.
“We’ve had a minimum of a number of 100-degree days over the previous couple of years,” stated Zach Hiris with the Nationwide Climate Service in Boulder. “2020 had fairly a number of, however we haven’t hit it but this yr, and to be fairly trustworthy, it’s tough to say if we’ll.”
Extra scorching climate is on the best way within the coming few weeks, however how possible is it that Denver might see a 100-degree day now?
“(Monday) was in all probability our greatest likelihood of getting one,” Hiris stated. “We’ve solely had two 100-degree days happen after Aug. 21, so if we don’t see one thing within the subsequent week or two I believe we’re within the clear.”
That’s to not say it’s not been scorching, Hiris acknowledged, saying that regardless that it hasn’t hit 100 levels but, temperatures have been proper under 100 a number of instances already. Monday hit a every day file with 99 levels, and highs have been within the 90s for every week, with extra on the best way.
Denver was on a warmth alert Monday and one other one Tuesday for extra temperatures over 95 levels.
The final time Denver missed the 100-degree threshold was in 2015, and the yr with the best variety of 100-degree days was 2012 when town noticed triple digits on 13 days.
Denver has seen two latest days of 100-degree climate in early September — one in 2019 and one in 2020 — so it’s technically attainable there could possibly be one this yr as properly.
“With Colorado, it’s tough to say after we attain a sure date it’s not occurring,” Hiris stated. “We’ve began seeing 100-degree days into September now, so if we bought one other warmth wave that shifted a little bit extra to the west, then it’d be attainable that we might see 100 levels once more. However, a minimum of, from what we’re seeing within the long-term sample, it doesn’t appear to be it’s particularly more likely to see that properly above-normal warmth.”