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Highest Ever Thermometer Reading in March Reached Yet Again, along with the seventh and eighth day in a row seeing record breaking Temps
(posted at 158 am on March 25 by Keno; updated on 222 am on March 26)
I'm having flashbacks to 2012, the last time the Crestone-Baca saw a March like this one, and it seemed back then like every day I was writing here about the latest new record high set for yet another March date. It does gets old when you have to find new and different words to use with each statement here as I'm tying to write about the latest new record broken - without repeating myself. But even in 2012, it wasn't anywhere as crazy as this March has been! Anyway, for the seventh day in a row, we saw a record high broken for the date (for March 24), as the old record was 69°, reached in 2012, and that old record was totally destroyed - by 9 full degrees! Also for this day, we tied the all time warmest temperature ever seen in March, when the high hit 77.5° (which of course gets rounded up to 78°). I've now lost count of how many times we've seen that happen (so far) in this month, I guess I can just count it all up on the last day of the month, as I don't feel like doing it at this time. Guess I should note that we also set another record high for the 24th, as the overnight low was a warm 38°, which was the warmest ever overnight low for the date, breaking the old record of 32°, and if that isn't enough, we also set the highest average temp for the date, too, which was 51° and is now 58°.
Update: For the 8th day in a row (March 25), the Crestone-Baca recorded a record high temp at 79 degree, breaking the old daily high record of 69°, reached in 2012... The 79 reading was also the new all time highest reading ever seen in March, breaking the old record set yesterday.
Fifth day in a row, then sixth day in a Row that the Crestone-Baca sees Record Breaking March Temps in the 70s
(posted on March 23 at 240 am by Keno; then updated* at 216 am on March 24)ght, the NWS was calling for a bit cooler temperature readings for our area below 8,100 feet, for Sunday afternoon, where the Town of Crestone, the Grants, and most of Chalet 1 sits. They called for a high of 66 degrees. Our official government weather station sits at 8,085 feet, in my backyard, and I was thinking maybe not, so I called for a warmer high of 70 degrees, which would be a record for the date. But both myself and the NWS were off, as the thermometer reached 72 degrees, breaking the old mark of 68 degrees, set in 2012.
This marked the 5th straight day of readings in the 70s. Up until this week, in Crestone-Baca's weather history, we had only seen 3 days total here in the month of March, where the temperature ever rose to 70, yet in this past 5 days, the high temps were in the lower to mid 70s on each day! This is happening all over Colorado and in most of the western U.S. This is why I often bring up man-made climate change here, since some people believe (or if they are politician's, they just lie) that climate change isn't real. People who believe this - or even worst - politician's who lie about this fact, are the blame for all the damage that climate change is now bringing us. It will be a lot worst in the years to come, too. I and my generation won't be around when it really gets bad, but our children and grandchildren will be. So, that's why I speak up about the warming of our planet - which we humans are directly causing. Please do something to stop this from happening, like writing letters to our reps in DC, for your children's sake, since right now, we are leaving them a major mess and problem!
*Update on Tuesday morning: The record breaking temperatures just keep on going in our little hamlet, as on Monday, March 23, the Crestone-Baca area saw yet again - for the sixth day in a row, a record high set late in the day (at 404 pm) of 69.9 degrees (officially 70 degrees), breaking the old record reading of 68 degrees, set in 2012.
Looking at the upcoming forecast, this warm spell should last another 3 days, until Wednesday afternoon, with record highs expected on each day. After that, cooler weather will finally make a return, with a rain-snow mix in the forecast for the foothills and all snow in the mountains for Thursday through at least next Monday. Of course, this is all subject to change, with the NWS seemingly unsure at this time. Do understand - and I'm not at all the type of person who brags, in fact I don't care for such persons, but for the second day in a row, while I forecasted record highs for our area, the local NWS office in Pueblo forecasted temps in the mid 60s for here and claimed we won't see any records broken on either day. On Sunday, with mostly sunny skies, it was clear to me anyway that we would break the daily record, and did by 4 full degrees. Then yesterday (Monday), with the cloud cover increasing by early afternoon (but after we had tied the record high for the day of 68 degrees, just before 1 pm when the sun was still shinning), it appeared that with the afternoon cloudy skies, that lasted for the rest of the day, we weren't going to reach the 70s for the first day in a week. Yet, both weather stations here showed the thermometer rising late in the day anyway, on both weather stations in my backyard - my unofficial online station that all of you get to see live, and the offline government weather station where I keep the local, official weather records for us. Usually they are around half a degree off from each other, but on Monday, they gave the exact same high temperature readings just after 4 pm, and we just barely made it up to the 70 degree mark. So the warm streak continues, for now.
Highest Ever Thermometer Reading for March Reached on Thursday, March 19, in the Crestone-Baca, then broken again on Friday, and Saturday, March 20 & 21
(first posted by Keno at 1242 am on March 20, then updated on March 21 at 322 am and on March 22 at 505 am)
On Thursday, March 19 in the Crestone-Baca, the insane warm weather continued when the high temperature reached up to 75.7 degrees, breaking the old record for the date of 69 degrees, set in 2017. This was also the warmest temperature reading ever seen in March (or for that matter, in the wintertime), and the record broken was only just set the day before! But it didn't only happen here, as there were all time recorded high temps for March seen all over the entire state on Thursday!...
Update 1: As forecasted on Friday, March 19, the daily high temperature for the date was broken again in the Crestone-Baca and a new all time high for the month of March was also set, when the day's high reached 76.5 degrees (which gets rounded up to 77 degrees for the record books). This reading breaks the old record for March 20 of 69 degrees, set in 1997, and the all time high ever seen in March, a record that was just set yesterday. So, not only has this happened for the third day in a row, it could happen yet again today (Saturday, March 21). We will find out if this is so very soon, so do stay turned.
Update 2: For the 4th day in a row, yet another all time record March high climate change thermometer reading was seen in our area when the high went all the way up to 77.7 degrees (or 78 degrees officially, as the NWS will list it), breaking the old record for the date of 70 degrees, set in 2004. As already noted, this also sets the all time high ever seen in March.
Yes, the warmth felt great, but in reality, this is a very bad thing! Our all time low mountain snowpack we been seeing this winter, not only in our mountains, but in all of the mountain ranges of Colorado, have now already started their snow melt! Let me remind you, March is usually Colorado's snowiest month on record. Here in Crestone, we usually average just under a foot of snow in March, but as of today, we have seen just one snowfall for this month so far (4.3" on March 6)!
Record High Temp seen on March 18 breaks our All-time
Earliest first 70 degree day Record!
(posted by Keno on March 19
at 1208 am)
The earliest ever seen 70 degree day in the Crestone-Baca took place on Wednesday, March 18, when the thermometer rose all the way up to and beyond 70 degrees, when the high reached 71.1 degrees at 501 pm. This not only broke the record high for the day, which was 68 degrees, set in 2017, but it was the earliest our area ever saw a temperature reading in the 70s. The earliest record that was broken, was set in 2012 on March 21, when the high that day was 70 degrees. This also means that Wednesday's reading was also the warmest reading ever seen in this area in March. But going with the current forecast, this record won't last too long, as for the next 3 days, readings in the mid 70s are expected.
More Record Highs seen in the Crestone-Baca on
March 2 and March 5
(posted by Keno on March 3, at 240 am;
updated on March 5 at 1116 pm)
For a second day in a row (on ), the Crestone Baca saw a record high temperature broken when the high reached 61 degrees, breaking the old record of 60 degrees, set just 4 years ago in 2022.
Yet again, another record high was seen in the Crestone-Baca when today, Thursday, March 5, we tied the record high for the date at 59 degrees. This record was first reached back in 2006.
Sunday sees a Record High Temperature Broken
(posted by Keno on March 2, at 142 am)
For the third time in 13 days, the Crestone-Baca broke a record for the highest temp ever seen for the date. Now, I hate to repeat myself from what I wrote last week, but since the almost same exact thing happened on Sunday as it did last Tuesday, here comes the repeat: Our thermometer surpassed the old record for the date of 59 degrees - which was only set last year in 2025, as yesterday (March 1) we reached a high of 61 degrees.... The last sentence of that statement is identical to what I wrote here last week, as I just copy and past what you see there, other than one simple difference, that being the high temp yesterday was one degree warmer than a week ago. But I can't ever recall being able to use the same exact sentence like that, when writing about another record high reading. Weird indeed!
