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Jun 30, 2008 8:03 am US/Mountain

Aguilera: July Denver's Hottest Month

By Dave Aguilera

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DENVER (CBS4) ― Welcome to Denver's hottest month! The month of July is full of lots of ups and downs in terms of weather. Normal high temperatures are all in the upper 80s this month.
 
In fact, from the 20th of the month through the 27th, the normal high is 89 degrees: typically, the warmest part of the year for Denver. The Mile High City tied the hottest recorded high temperature, during this period on July 20, 2005, when we hit 105 degrees! That temperature was previously reached on August 8, 1878.

If you remember, that summer of 2005 was the year we set six record high temperatures in July. Here are the numbers from that year, 105 on July 20, 104 on the July 21, 102 on July 22, 102 on July 23, and 101 on July 30.

And even though June tends to have more tornadoes, July usually has more thunderstorms as a whole than any other month. On average, Denver in July has a thunderstorm about every third day. And the most damaging hail storm on record hit the city on July 11, 1990. Hail the size of baseballs to softballs pelted the west side of town causing millions of dollars of damage.

With all those thunderstorms, July in Denver is on average our second wettest month. The average precipitation is 2.16 inches. But, with the nature of thunderstorms, precipitation in July is very spotty and spread out. Some areas could pick up downpours on one side of town, while nothing at all falls on the other all in the same afternoon.

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