tacoman25

64/47 day at DEN yesterday, -13 below average day. Still haven't been warmer than 86 since 8/21. We're a day away from the 5 year anniversary of one of the most dynamic weather events I've seen. After hitting a record 101 a few days earlier, a strong cold front pushed down the Front Range on 9/7. First it produced high winds and blowing dust, with temps falling from the low 90s in the early afternoon to the 50s a few hours later. Then came rain, turning to snow in the early am hours. High of 93 on 9/7, followed by 43 on 9/8. DEN officially picked up an inch, but many parts of the metro area (including my house) saw 2-3". It was one of the earliest snows on record for the city.

Of course climate change is having an effect on certain things. Did anyone say it isn't? We can still acknowledge that and also acknowledge that directly attributing disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, etc to climate change is not a scientific endeavor. Now, if research shows that certain events are statistically becoming more common across large regions over a significant period of time that correlates to climate change (and there is a physical reason for it that also corroborates) then you have a starting point. Give nuance a chance. Or don't. I don't have much patience for those that adopt a rigid, religious, dogmatic mindset.

I was largely agreeing with your point. But it's also fair to point out that because singular events cannot singularly be attributed to climate change, telling people that catastrophic floods are now 15% more likely in their area isn't going to move the needle. And of course, the science is still very much unsettled on exactly how climate warming is affecting natural disaster frequency, severity, etc. So it will likely take something much larger scale and non-singular to affect political/social change of mind.

Yeah, the issue is that failed harvests, catastrophic floods, other major disasters, etc, have all happened many times before and it's really impossible (and intellectually dishonest) to pin any single event directly to climate change. Now, if some regions started seeing repeated, mass casualty level heat waves, or as you said rising oceans began causing large scale flooding in major cities, then I think that would grab enough political attention to take serious action.

GFS says relief is coming soon. We shall see.

After last year's 4th hottest summer on record nationally, I'm guessing 2025 ended up somewhere in the 15th to 20th range.

DEN finished the last 10 days of August with no high warmer than 84. The last time that happened was 1987.

Seventh day in a row with rain here yesterday. DEN picked up another .69", now up to 4.10" on the month. Wettest August for the airport since it moved to its current location in the mid 1990s.

What he said actually doesn't make much sense. Moral intelligence vs. reasoning intelligence what?

Another day, another downpour here. .42" in just over an hour earlier this evening. Looks like the airport picked up .50". This has been the best summer rainy stretch here since June 2023 - which was insane (over 6" of rain in like 2 weeks).

This doesn't show amounts but definitely gives an idea of where the heaviest rainfall has been the past week. These maps tend to be biased dry because they often include stations that are missing precip data.

Just picked up .68" from a heavy t-storm that moved through. Up to 1.9" for the month. Loving this pattern!

Man, some of you all are just unlucky. Picked up another half inch so far today. DEN picked up 1.3"! That puts the airport at 2.8" on the month, well above normal. Looks like parts of Aurora have seen 2-2.5" today.

Gotcha. Looked like your area was getting hit good yesterday on radar...glad you picked up some this am!

That's crazy, I'm like 5 mi from you.

Another .31" this afternoon/evening. Up to .72" for the month.

Picked up .08" yesterday evening from showers. Everything is staying west so far today.

Uh, strong t-storm moving through south metro right now. Probably won't hit you but shows convection is definitely still on the table this evening.

Agreed, although this is a different pattern than we've seen most the summer. The lack of a strong four corners high this summer is the primary reason the monsoon has been lackluster around here, imo.

Correct. Here are a couple of the predictions from prominent experts during that period. One predicting in 2007 an ice-free Arctic by 2012, and the other in 2012 predicting an ice-free Arctic by 2016. Just goes to show that there are important factors not fully understood in this science, then or now. https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2007/12/12/scientist-arctic-ocean-could-be-ice-free-by-2012/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/17/arctic-collapse-sea-ice#

A major storm impacted parts of the Denver metro earlier this month (DEN got 1.43" on 8/10), but this monsoon season has definitely been a disappointment overall. That said, this upcoming pattern looks amazing. 0z Euro showed sub-80 temps here all the way through day 10, with several sub-70 days. Basically unheard of for August in Denver. And plenty of rain.

I've lived in CO for nearly 20 years. Moving here had little to do with the weather, but I do enjoy the frequent snowfall.

There are certainly different ways to look at this. Back in 2012, there was a lot of talk of a tipping point having been reached in the Arctic, and some thought we'd be seeing virtually ice-free summers by now.

And yet we've seen an overall decline in violent crime since the 1980/90s, despite warming temps.

What are the top 3 highest since 2007?