Two record temperatures were broken on Monday,
February 3. The first reading absolutely
blew apart the old record for the date of 51 degrees, when the
thermometer rose all the way up to 61 degrees by mid afternoon. That
reading was a full
10 degrees higher then the old record high that was set back in 2000. This reading was also the soonest Crestone has seen the 60
degree marker in any one year - ever, as the old earliest date was a 61
degree reading on February 20, 1995. This reading was also only 4
degrees off from the warmest February temperature ever reached, which
was set on February 28, 2006.
A second record was also set for February
3, as the average temperature for the date was broken, at 45.5 degrees.
The normal average temp for this day should be 20.1 degrees.
On February 4, and for the second day in a row, the Crestone/Baca
saw two more weather records for high temperatures broken, both once
again for the daily and average highs for the date. While not as warm as
the day before thanks to cloud cover, the recorded high temperature still was
broken, as the 56 degree reading broke the old record of 55 degrees,
which was set in 1999. Then the day's average
temperature was also broken, with a reading of 45 degrees, breaking
the old record of 40 degrees, set in 2018.
Day three of the streak of record breaking
high temperatures happened at the Crestone/Baca Weather Station on February 5,
with three new records set.
First, another record high temp for the date was set when the high
reached 55 degrees, breaking the old mark of 53 degrees, set in 1995.
Then, for the
third day in a row, the day's average temperature was broken when it
reached 44 degrees. The old
record was 40 degrees, set in 1999. Also broken was the highest low
temp ever seen for the date, when the thermometer only dropped down to
32 degrees, breaking the old record of 30 degrees, which also took place
in 1999.
Another new day arrives on February 6 and
then passes and another two record highs were broken, this happening for
the fourth day in a row. The first one was for the warmest temp ever seen on
February 6, when the
high reached 56 degrees, breaking the old record of 55 degrees, set in
1999. Then the average temperature for the day was also broken for the
fourth day counting, with a reading of 42 degrees. The old mark was 39
degrees, set in 1995.
Finally, for the fifth day in a row, more record
highs are seen, this
time, with three more new records set on February 7. The first
of three records broken was for the high temperature for the date, when the old record
of 53 degrees, set in 2015, was broken when the thermometer reached 55 degrees.
Then the second record to fall was the warmest low ever for February 7,
as the overnight reading only dropped down to 35 degrees, smashing the old mark
of 31 degrees, set in 2001. This also marked the earliest first 24
hour free, nonfreezing day of the year. Finally, the third record
surpassed on this date was the average temperature, which was 45.5
degrees, rounded off by the NWS to 46 degrees. This reading destroyed the old record for the date, which was 38 degrees, set in 2001.
A new record high temp was tied in the Crestone/Baca
on March 1 at 59 degrees. This reading was first reached in 1999.
Another record high temp was reached on March 27, when another tie was
seen for a record high temperature for the date, when the thermometer
rose to 68 degrees in the late afternoon. This reading was first reached
back in 2004.
The first trace of Rain for 2025 falls on April 15.
Three record lows were seen in April.
While snowy cold days do happen here in April, and are normal, the high
temperature for any day staying at or below freezing, is rarely ever
seen - yet that's exactly what took place on Saturday, April 5. With the
snow that fell lasting the entire morning and afternoon, helping to keep
the air cold all day, the high temperature reading was only 32 degrees
(and that wasn't reached until 520 pm, with the temperature for most of
the day in the mid to upper 20s). So this reading broke the old record
low high for the date which was 41 degrees, set in 2024. This freezing
low high also set the record for the coldest ever daily high in April.
The old record was 35 degrees, set on 2 dates, April 4, 2002 and April
3, 2023. Yet it didn't stop there with those two records being broken,
since the average daily temperature for the date was just 26 degrees,
and that was a new record low, too. That reading destroyed the old
average low record of 40.2 degrees.
The first
measuable Rain of 2025 falls on May 4.
Snow grains fell on May 7 with the temperature at 46 degrees. In most
places around the world this would be something never seen before, but
here at just under 8,100 feet, this happens at least once each spring
because of how high the Crestone Baca is in elevation. In fact, it was the second
time that week it snowed with the thermometer above 40 degrees!
On June 2, record precipitation was seen for the date when 0.45 of an
inch of rain was recorded.
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