Heat

A study by the American Psychological Association says kids have a harder time absorbing lessons when the indoor temperature climbs to about 73 degrees. A look at how heat affects kids’ brains, and what school leaders along Colorado’s Front Range can do to help.

Much of the West sweltered through record-breaking heat this summer, as a strengthening El Niño, unusually warm oceans and ongoing human-caused climate change combined to push temperatures to historic levels.

Colorado, like the rest of the contiguous U.S., experienced its warmest summer on record this year. Temperature monitors in Denver recorded 15 more days than average of 90 degrees or above.

In some parts of the West - like the grass and shrublands of the Idaho-Oregon-Nevada tristate area - closer to two-thirds of burned area is associated with heatwaves.

Extreme heat can be ‘invisible’ compared to wildfires and drought — but it’s more dangerous by far.

Scientists have a new name for a weather pattern reshaping how the West gets its water: so-called “snow-eater” heat waves.

A record-breaking stretch of high temperatures late last month was Colorado’s worst heat wave in the 75 years that such records have been collected, state climatologists said Tuesday.

Heat safety campaigns throughout the region focus on at-risk populations, outdoor workers and the unhoused.

The unseasonal warmth that broke longstanding temperature records across the West last week was a hit to Colorado's already low snowpack. Climate change drove the heat wave, but scientists say it's still an outlier in today's world.

Dillon and Steamboat Springs both recorded their warmest-ever March days. Both were recorded last week.