Don’t like the recent weather in Denver? Don’t wait five minutes. Just get used to it.
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 its warmest August on record, with a daily average temperature of 76.8 degrees, which would tie August 1937 in the record books.
The high in Denver Wednesday, the last day of the month, is expected to be 95 degrees, which should push Denver to the new record, according to the National 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 National Weather Service said in its monthly weather outlook posted online today.
Temperatures typically begin to cool down as autumn approaches and daily highs peak in the upper 70s during most of the month. However, days in the 90s have been known to linger to the end of the month, forecasters warned.
Last year, Denver experienced its fifth-driest and seventh-warmest September on record, with no rain at all during the last 25 days of the month and record high temperatures for the date on four days.
There were 25 days above 80 degrees in September last year.
Denver has set or tied four record highs in the past week, with more than 20 days this month in which the high has been more than 90 degrees. Denver averages nine days, and last year had 12 days hotter than 90 degrees in August last year.
Denver averages three days warmer than 90 degrees in September and could pick up the first one Thursday, the first day of the month, which has a forecast for a high of 92 degrees, before highs cool off to the upper 80s through midweek next week.
That’s still about 10 degrees warmer than Denver’s average high for September, 78.5 degrees.
Denver normally gets 1.14 inches of rain in September.
