After nearly two months of regular summer dry heat and then some, a big change occurred with the weather across the Front Range region in the last two to three days. When I got off work late Thursday night/Friday morning, a unseasonably powerful front had passed through and we were experiencing a strong driving cold rain. The rain continued largely unabated until into Saturday evening. Friday saw a record rainfall of over two inches and temperatures that stayed in the upper 40s all day and night. Saturday saw much the same with close to another inch of rain and temperatures that never got above 53 degrees. Both day's highs were record low high temperatures and more typical of November. With the record setting rainfall from last week, these past two days of rain put the area on track for its wettest August ever. We are within a quarter inch of breaking the record of 6.73 " of precipitation set in 1930. With over two weeks left in the month the breaking of the record is a certainty. We are also ahead of the curve on annual precipitation for the first time this year with the latest flurry of rain. It been enough to even turn the prairie back to more of a green color which is unusual for mid-August
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The mountains in Colorado and Wyoming to the east and south got a decent dusting of snow with a couple of inches being observed at elevations down to 12,000'.
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Strange how things can change so markedly. After a blistering hot July that tied the record for the driest July ever, August has seen quite the turnaround as it has rained for 11 of the 16 days so far. The forecast for the next several days, however, is for more dryer conditions and a return to near normal temperatures. While the heat seen in the first two days of August is done for this year, we might still have a few days left where it can near 90 degrees for about another month. But the trend is towards less hot for the rest of the month as temperatures will probably rise at most to the mid eighties with quite a few days less than that for the most part.
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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
0923 PM MDT FRI AUG 15 2008
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...RECORD LOW HIGH SET AT CHEYENNE WY...
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THE RECORD LOW HIGH WAS BROKEN AT CHEYENNE TODAY. FRIDAY'S HIGH WAS 49 DEGREES. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD LOW HIGH OF 60 DEGREES SET IN 1888.
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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
143 AM MDT SAT AUG 16 2008
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...RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM RAINFALL SET AT CHEYENNE WY...
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A RECORD RAINFALL OF 2.07 INCH(ES) WAS SET AT CHEYENNE WY YESTERDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 1.1" SET IN 1931.
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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
931 PM MDT SAT AUG 16 2008
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...RECORD LOW HIGH SET AT CHEYENNE WY...
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THE RECORD LOW HIGH WAS BROKEN AT CHEYENNE TODAY. SATURDAY'S HIGH WAS 53 DEGREES. THIS BROKE THE OLD RECORD LOW HIGH OF 62 DEGREES SET IN1875.
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