The Southwest monsoon provided scattered thunderstorm activity to the state of Colorado in July, especially in early July, and again during the third week of the month.
Otherwise, the month had warmer-than-normal conditions with close to normal precipitation.
The monsoon will bring some thunderstorms into the first week of August, then a mainly warm and dry pattern will ensue for the remainder of the month, especially from the Front Range east through the Eastern Plains.
Spotty thunderstorms will continue during the afternoons in the mountains during much of the month, but they will happen much less frequently in Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and east to the Kansas border.
Now that late summer is approaching, temperatures will be near normal. They peaked in July and are beginning to head back down. Denver’s normal high and low temperatures will slide from 90 and 60 degrees on Aug. 1 to 88 and 59 on Aug. 15 and will end the month at 84 and 54.
Precipitation totals should be below normal this month. Denver’s normal August rainfall total is 1.57 inches, compared with Colorado Springs’ normal of 3.34 inches.
