Close, but no hot cigar.
Denver record high temperature for 7/18 of 99° has been tied!
— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder)
Denver tied a record — 99 degrees — Thursday for the high temperature on July 18, according to the National Weather Service. The last time the high temperature hit 99 degrees in Denver on that date was in 1998.
Thursday’s record-tying temp happened at 2:57 p.m., the weather service said.
Denver set a new record high minimum temperature for July 17, 2019 of 72 degrees. The old record was 71 degrees back in 1997.
— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder)
On Wednesday, Denver set a new record — 72 degrees — for the highest minimum temperature on that date, July 17. The previous record was in 1997.
Denver’s heat wave isn’t quite over.
On Friday in Denver, skies will be sunny and the weather will be hot, with a forecast high temperature of 100 degrees, according to the weather service.
On Saturday, Denverites should experience a bit of heat relief, with showers likely and a possible thunderstorm after 1 p.m., according to the weather service. The high on Saturday will be about 86 degrees. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph, and the chance for precipitation is 60 percent.
