You know, I'm getting really tired of this heat.. my poor roses are fried to a crisp. I've lost probably 5-10 to being fried,... but I can't water any more than I am. 4" down below the mulch the ground is cool & moist from watering, but the tops of my new roses are just burnt to a crisp. I know they won't survive the winter.
Mind you, we haven't had hardly any rain at all this YEAR.. a few weeks that were wet, but no snow during the winter so the metro is drying up pretty badly.
:( :(
From the Denver Post:
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Today was another hot one for the record books, as Denver set a new high temperature for the date.
The temperature reached 96 degrees at 2:18 p.m., snapping the record of 94 degrees set in 1969, according to the National Weather Service in Denver.
The 30-year average for Aug. 28 is 84 degrees.
The city's official monitoring site at Denver International Airport has hit record highs on four of the last seven days.
Last Thursday, Denver shattered a 98-year-old record high when it reached 99 degrees, beating the old mark of 96 degrees.
It was the latest date in Denver history that the temperature has hit 99 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
Wednesday's high of 98 broke the city's record high for Aug. 24, which had been 97 and was also set in 1936.
Tuesday Denver tied a 2-year-old record high for the date with 98 degrees at the city's official monitoring site at Denver International Airport.
The city also tied a 25-year-old record high for Aug. 18, reaching 98 degrees last Thursday.
Denver has had seven straight days of highs between 92 and 99 degrees, and 20 days above 90 this month, a time of year when things usually begin to cool off. Normally Denver has nine such days in August, and last year there were 12, according to the weather data.
Denver has seven other days this month in which the high was between 87 degrees and 89 degrees.
In July, there were 20 days of temperatures above 90, which is five more than normal, weather records show.
The metro could catch a break on Monday with a high of 88 degrees at a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before noon and again in the evening.
Temperatures rebound into the 90s on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, forecasters said.
