BoulderCAST Weather 🏔️⛈️

@NWSGJT We got this!

Grand Junction airport had a high of 82 degrees today, which has broken the old record of 81 degrees set back in 1907. This is the first of many potential record highs over the next several days. #cowx #utwx

@lauraannguy Same here. That will be a good practice for the next week. ⛱️ 🌞

@BoulderCAST Horrible. I had to remember the "open windows early to cool down the house, then close them before 11am" rule today.

💥 Well, just about every city in Colorado is currently tying or breaking their existing record max temperature for the month of March. Boulder, Denver, Broomfield, DIA, Fort Collins, Pueblo, Greeley, Akron, CO Springs, Aspen, Leadville, Gunnison, Montrose, and Durango. The same is true across the entire West. Today's freshly minted records will get rebroken on Friday and then smashed again on Saturday. #COWX

@JJProwe 60s reaching up above 10,000 feet.

Three straight hours above 40° at 13,000’. Brutal.

Hottest March Day on Record For Pueblo At 318 pm the temperature in Pueblo reached 87, which breaks the daily record of 86 set in 2017 and also the monthly record of 86, last set in 2017. #cowx

Denver International Airport recorded a temperature of 85° this afternoon. This is a new, all-time record high temperature for the month of March... breaking the previous record of 84° set on March 26, 1971. #cowx

Also worth noting that we will probably break a few record warm daily minimums (i.e. warmest overnight lows) during this stretch. All of those existing records are in the low to middle 50s.

A shocking amount of temperature records are set to be broken in Boulder over the next 8 days, including 7 daily record highs, the March monthly record, and possibly the earliest 90° reading, among others. The degree to which each will be obliterated is also astounding! 🤯 #COwx

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🌡️ COLORADO HEATWAVE UPDATE 🌶️ Record-setting March heatwave continues thru Saturday with near-critical fire danger—then comes Round #2 next week Here’s the latest details on how this historic setup will unfold across the Front Range: bouldercast.com/colorado-forec… #COwx #Colorado

@will_eastfeldt That seems to be the second smaller 12-acre fire nearby, but not 1600 acres!

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WatchDuty hallucinating a 1600 acre fire south of Colorado Springs? Nothing visible from satellite. No social media reports. More: app.watchduty.org/i/86563 #COWX

@skierman69 That seems to be the second smaller 12-acre fire nearby, but not 1600 acres!

@BoulderCAST Could have been this

🔥 A Red Flag Warning goes into effect here shortly through 7PM. Conditions will be most dangerous up along the Wyoming Border where winds will be strongest (35+ MPH gusts). Elsewhere, fuels/conditions are also ripe for ignition & moderate spread. No sparks or flames! #COWx

Our hedge leaves started popping weeks ahead of schedule due to the warmth. Let's just say they don't appear to have liked the 17 degree temperatures we had Monday morning ... #cowx

@justbooket Yes, 2010-11 was also a terrible snow year down here. Mountains did OK, largely due to some MASSIVE dumps in April and May which fell as mostly rain in Denver.

@BoulderCAST Interesting. I heard 2010-11 was similar.

❄️ 28.1" of snow in #Boulder so far this season which is 47% of the long-term normal. We're safe from being that worst snow season on record. That one remains 1981-82 at 20.8" which we already eclipsed back in January. #COWX #Boulderwx

@mewmewmew13 2017 had very little snow in the weeks leading up to this picture. And it was a warm month overall with fading La Niña, not unlike our current situation. Luckily the end of March-May was pretty wet and saved us that year. It seems unlikely that is how this spring will go...

@BoulderCAST no ice on that trail!

Hmm... #COWx #Boulder