Daily weather stats from Monday, 8/31

Well, here we are, through another month, and we had a "non-dull" round of storms to close out August.

Both Colorado Springs and Pueblo warmed up nicely from Sunday.
Colorado Springs reported a high of 78 (up from 66 on Sunday)
Pueblo edged up to 87 degrees (after 75 on Sunday)

Statwide, the hot spot was Grand Junction, with a high of 93.
The coldest "official" reported tempreature was 35 overnight in Leadville.

The Farmer's Almanac predictions are in for the upcoming Winter, and suggest it will be bitterly cold. This will be fun to watch, as the long-term models from NOAA suggest warmer-than-average.

Interesting sidelight about the Almanac, it's predictions are based on a number of factors, but reduced to the simplest terms, it's conditional climatology. When it has an "on" year, it's pretty good. It's "off" years, can be pretty dramatically bad, though.

In any case, it will be fun to watch which system more accurately predicts the upcoming Winter.

My prediction....there's no science involved in this one at all. It's just that based on our summer pattern, this feels a LOT like 1997 to me, so I'd plan on a thrill-ride or two before the winter is over.