As summer vacations wind down and families prepare to send their kids back to school in August, Colorado weather also starts to settle down. The chances for severe weather decrease markedly during August and by the end of the month daytime temperatures are dropping quite a bit as well.
At the start of the month Denver usually averages around 88 degrees for a high temperature. By the end of August that drops to 82 degrees. Similarly, nighttime lows drop from 60 to 53 from the start to the end of the month. Generally clear skies can be expected between midnight and noon but the afternoon often brings showers and thunderstorms. These storms typically develop over the foothills then bring precipitation to the Denver metro area.
Despite that moisture, the chance for severe weather decreases considerably compared to the first two months of summer. Cooler air near the surface helps to create a stable atmosphere thus keeping thunderstorms from usually becoming too intense. After the middle of August, tornadoes and damaging hail are pretty rare. The slow movement of storms this time of year are more likely to produce potentially heavy rain.
Could you please tell me what the weather was doing on august 11th,2009 in Montgomery,alabama if it was raining or what. I need an answer by Sunday. Please help me.
Pauline, looking at National Weather Service records for Montogomery, it appears the high temperature that day was 96 and the low was 74. 0.01 inch of precipitation was recorded. For more information, I would contact the Birmingham NWS office here: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/