{"id":797072,"date":"2019-06-24T17:25:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T23:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=367853"},"modified":"2019-06-24T17:25:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T23:25:51","slug":"summer-to-make-an-appearance-in-summit-county-this-week-with-temps-in-the-70s-after-record-setting-snowfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summer-to-make-an-appearance-in-summit-county-this-week-with-temps-in-the-70s-after-record-setting-snowfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer to make an appearance in Summit County this week with temps in the 70s after record-setting snowfall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Illinois Creek overflows under blue skies Monday, June 24, in Breckenridge.<\/strong>
Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com<\/em>
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DILLON \u2014 If you\u2019ve lived in the Colorado Rockies long enough, you\u2019ve probably seen snowflakes fluttering in the sky in every month of the year. June snow isn\u2019t unheard of, but summertime accumulation is another thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving this much accumulation this late in the season isn\u2019t normal,\u201d National Weather Service meteorologist Erin Walter said. \u201cIt\u2019s uncommon, but it does happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The summer solstice started off mild in Dillon, where the high reached 66 on Friday before temperatures started to cool that evening and a storm system brought rain, hail and snow overnight.<\/p>\n

Summit County residents woke to snow accumulating on the grass Saturday, when 1 inch was recorded in Dillon. Record snowfall for June 22 is 4 inches, which fell in 1947.<\/p>\n

The 1 inch of snow that fell Sunday in Dillon set a record for the date. Low temperatures in the first three days of summer were about 10 degrees warmer than record lows for the dates, which fell in the low 20s.<\/p>\n

While a few more flurries are possible above 11,000 feet, temperatures are forecast to reach into the 70s this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can expect a 10 degree increase (Monday), and then a couple degrees each day,\u201d Walter said. \u201cSo we\u2019re climbing back toward those normal temperatures and back toward summer conditions this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the warmup, afternoon winds could spike to 20 to 25 mph. With no major precipitation in the forecast, those windy days potentially could cause elevated fire weather mid to late this week, according to Walter.<\/p>\n

Fire danger currently is low.<\/p>\n

\u201cJune is typically one of the dryer months in western Colorado, then we start to see an uptick in moisture in July when we start to get the remnants of the monsoon,\u201d Walter said.<\/p>\n

Rising rivers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite unseasonably cool temperatures, wet weather sent area streams to their likely peaks for the year.<\/p>\n

Tenmile Creek\u2019s year-to-date peak was 4.26 feet, or 969 cubic feet per second, at 9:15 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The stream is expected to rise slightly to 4.33 feet later this week, according to a National Weather Service forecast. Minor flood stage for the creek is 5 feet, and the water never has gone above 5.14 feet, a high-water mark set June 17, 1995.<\/p>\n

Straight Creek, which flows into the Blue River just below the dam, reached its likely peak of 5.24 feet, or 129 cfs, at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, June 20.<\/p>\n

Area streams \u201care going to receded a little bit and maybe come back up as we see warmer temperatures,\u201d National Weather Service senior hydrologist Treste Huse said.<\/p>\n

She called for \u201ccontinued high flows for the next week \u2014 at least \u2014 because of the continued snowmelt.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Blue River is flowing at a steady 2.85 feet, or 1,000 cfs, which is controlled by the outflows of Dillon Reservoir. The reservoir is 92% full, with room for an additional 20,534 acre feet of water. An acre foot is enough to cover a football field about one foot deep.<\/p>\n

Huse expects the Blue River will go higher as Denver Water works to regulate the water levels in the reservoir.<\/p>\n

In terms of flooding risk, gradual warming this spring prevented area streams from overrunning their floodplains despite record snowpack.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Summit County, all of our rivers are flowing well below what we would consider flood stage,\u201d Summit County emergency management director Brian Bovaird said. \u201cBecause the runoff has been so gradual, we are not anticipating any major problems at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Illinois Creek overflows under blue skies Monday, June 24, in Breckenridge.Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com Buy Photo DILLON \u2014 If you\u2019ve lived in the Colorado Rockies long enough, you\u2019ve probably seen snowflakes fluttering in the sky in every month of the year. June snow isn\u2019t unheard of, but summertime accumulation is another thing. \u201cHaving this much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 04:01:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}