Finally.
After last week’s pair of Denver-area snowstorms, it might’ve felt like summer might never arrive. But next week, Denver could hit 80 degrees for the first time in over six months.
Denver will have a couple of chances to hit 80 degrees next week, which would mark the city’s first 80-degree reading since last October.
“A warming and drying trend will begin on Saturday and continue through much of next week as a ridge of high pressure builds across much of the west,” the National Weather Service office in Boulder . “Daytime temperatures will be well above seasonal normals.”
A big ridge of high pressure will keep the long-term pattern relatively mild across the Front Range and throughout the western third of the country. A ridge is the general sinking of air over a wide area, which forces the air to compress and warm.
That weather pattern should keep Denver and the Front Range basking in above-average warmth throughout the majority of next week.
After a cooler Friday and Saturday, sunshine and mild temperatures return under that ridge by Sunday and Monday. Monday could be the first chance at 80-degree warmth, with other chances next Wednesday and Thursday as well. Sunshine will accompany the warm temperatures throughout the majority of next week.
Denver’s first average 80-degree temperature is on April 27, which means an 80-degree reading next week would be almost exactly on climatological schedule. Last year, Denver hit 80 degrees for the first time on April 20.
