One young man was swept down a flooded ditch, but was rescued by firemen. Heavy rain also caused minor flooding in east Denver and Aurora where lightning damaged the roof of a home and injured the owner. The accounts should make you feel better about how much you'll be sweating this afternoon.įlight operations at Stapleton International Airport were suspended for 90 minutes when the airport tower radar was knocked out and water reached a foot deep on some taxi ramps after 1.50 inches of rain fell in one hour. Here are our picks for the most bizarre weather episodes in the area for each day of August over the past 150 years, with text from the NWS website. Beyond those grasshoppers, which struck during consecutive years in the 1870s, the accounts tell of "great deposits of mud" following a storm that engulfed Denver in a "deadly stench" owing to the number of drowned farm animals lightning that caused an oil-storage tank to explode, in turn causing forty-foot-high flames to rage for more than an hour and another lightning strike that injured a man riding a roller coaster. This information comes from the National Weather Service, whose Boulder-Denver branch has assembled notable episodes from the area's meteorological past for every day of the year - and the ones for August are particularly crazy. For example, there was the day in 1875 when swarms of grasshoppers descended on the city, and the insects were "so numerous as to almost darken the sun." Such a record would be in keeping with local weather history, though, since the month of August frequently produces some of the wildest and most extreme weather in metro Denver. The final numbers aren't in yet, but according to CBS4 Denver forecaster Ashton Altieri, August 2022 is likely to end up as one of the hottest months on the Front Range since 1872, when statistics were first kept - and today's forecast calls for a high of 91 degrees.
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