The National Weather Service’s 30-day outlook for September sounds a lot like the weather in August: hotter than usual, drier than normal.
Denver remains on pace to have one of its warmest Augusts on record, with a daily average temperature of 76.8 degrees. That would tie August 1937 in the record books. The high in Denver today, the last day of the month, is expected to be in the mid- to upper 90s, which should put Denver on par with the 1937 record, according to the Weather Service.
Meanwhile, the city’s official weather-monitoring site at Denver International Airport has collected just 0.3 inches of rain, which keeps it barely outside the top 10 driest months on record. Tenth place is held by 1985, when the city got 0.28 inches of rain in August.
September is typically a sunny, dry month in Denver, recording, on average, the greatest number of sunny days for any month, the Weather Service said in its monthly weather outlook posted online Tuesday.
Denver has set or tied four record highs in the past week, and more than 20 days this month had highs topping 90 degrees. Denver averages nine days over 90, and last year, the city had 12 days hotter than 90 degrees in August. Joey Bunch, The Denver Post
