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Temperatures throughout Colorado shattered records Friday as triple-digit heat rolled in after recent weeks of rainfall.
“The whole state’s pretty toasty,” meteorologist Cameron Simcoe said.Cities along the I-25 corridor began seeing record heat early in the afternoon on Friday. In Colorado Springs, residents endured temperatures that tied a 96-degree record set 38 years ago.
By 2 p.m., Pueblo residents had seen temperatures outside reach a sweltering 103 degrees, breaking the city’s previous record set in 2016. In Alamosa, outside temperatures reached 92 degrees early Friday afternoon, breaking a previous July 9 record set in 1981.
The last time Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and Alamosa were this hot was on June 18, when all three cities set records for that day of the year.
A rainy Memorial Day weekend made the final splash in a rainier-than-average May for the Colorado Springs area. It s definitely above normal for this time of year, Cameron Simcoe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said of recent wet weather.
On average, 1.99 inches fall during the month of May in Colorado Springs, according to data going back to 1991.
As of Sunday evening, this May nearly doubled that amount of rainfall, with 3.97 inches for the month. That number doesn t come close to the record for May, which was 8.13 inches of rain in 2015.
Simcoe said the recent bout of rain has helped reduce drought conditions on the east side of the state.