Summit County Summer Temperature Trends

Summit County, CO spans the Continental Divide and is home to ski resorts, high mountain towns, I-70, and wilderness within the National Forest System. It is part of the ancestral home of the Ute people.

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Mean daily maximum temperatures for the month of August from 1896 - 2023. From NCEI: "maximum and minimum temperature data are derived from a 5km gridded instance of the nClimGrid dataset (Vose et al.2014) using data from the GHCN-Daily database."

Citation: NOAA National Centers for Environmental information, Climate at a Glance: County Time Series, published September 2023, retrieved on September 17, 2023 from https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/time-series