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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO
259 AM MDT TUE AUG 25 2026
..TODAY IN METRO DENVER WEATHER HISTORY
19-30 IN 1875...GRASSHOPPERS APPEARED IN GREAT NUMBERS AT 10:00 AM
ON THE 19TH AND CONTINUED THROUGH THE 30TH. THOUSANDS
LANDED ON THE GROUND. THE STREETS WERE LITERALLY COVERED
WITH THEM. SWARMS OF GRASSHOPPERS WERE SEEN ON EACH DAY.
ALL GARDENS IN THE CITY WERE DEVASTATED...AND IN THE
COUNTRYSIDE THE GRASSHOPPERS WERE VERY DESTRUCTIVE TO RIPENED
GRAIN. ON THE 30TH THE GRASSHOPPERS WERE SO NUMEROUS AS TO
ALMOST DARKEN THE SUN.
24-26 IN 1910...THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN AUGUST...40
DEGREES...OCCURRED ON THE 24TH...25TH AND 26TH...AS WELL AS ON
AUGUST 22...1904. THE UNUSUALLY COLD WEATHER FOR SO EARLY IN
THE SEASON BROUGHT SUB-FREEZING MINIMUM TEMPERATURES TO MUCH
OF THE COLORADO NORTHEASTERN PLAINS.
25 IN 1951...A MICROBURST PRODUCED A SOUTHWEST WIND GUST TO 50
MPH AT STAPLETON AIRPORT. ONLY A TRACE OF RAIN WAS
OBSERVED.
IN 1964...THUNDERSTORM WINDS GUSTED TO 59 MPH AND CAUSED
SOME BLOWING DUST AT STAPLETON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
IN 1994...LIGHTNING STRUCK A POWER POLE IN LOUISVILLE AND
CAUSED A TWO-HOUR POWER OUTAGE.
IN 2008...AN UNOCCUPIED HOME WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING IN AURORA...
CAUSING 75 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN DAMAGE TO THE ROOF.
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