With a high temperature of 95° on Tuesday, Boulder has now registered 23 95°+ days this summer, a new calendar year record (passing 2007's 22).
Boulder already tied the 100°+ day record (6) this past weekend.
With 40 90°+ days so far, the city is well on the way to a top 3 finish in that stat as well.
July 2026 along the Front Range was relentlessly hot, dry, and devoid of storms, dominated by stubborn upper‑level ridging that fueled long, punishing heatwaves and pushed Boulder towards one of its hottest months on record. Occasional pulses of monsoonal moisture did break through, producing slow‑moving thunderstorms and localized flash flooding near vulnerable burn scars, while wildfire smoke from the West periodically dimmed skies and degraded air quality early in the month.
With meaningful rainfall largely absent, Colorado’s severe drought deepened in July.
If interested, there are more monthly and updated annual summary graphics in our July 2026 recap here: https://bouldercast.com/july-2026-graphical-weather-review-in-some-respects-boulders-all-time-hottest-month-on-record/
You can read about my 71-day saga from 2019 trying to get my 77" G7 OLED (which was a $10k+ TV mind you back then) repaired or replaced in 2019 here: https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED/comments/cxmt2x/warning_lg_oled_tv_repair_service_can_be_very_bad/
Should have learned my lesson, but now 7 years later I am having a similar issue with LG OLED support.
My 83" G4 (~$5k TV) started experiencing a failure literally 1 year and 1 week after purchase. LG will not help do a repair in any way since it is past the 1 year warranty period. They won't even task their repair techs on the TV for a fee.
Their solution was to give me the information for two sketchy local LG authorized repair shops which are basically just random dudes who made LLCs in their basements. These are the only "shops" authorized by LG. They have horrible, spotty review records, but I reached out anyways. The one place has not replied at all yet (in 2+ weeks). The other replied initially very quick but as soon as I sent them pictures and videos of the issue, they have been ghosting me for 10+ days now.
You might be thinking, doesn't the G-Series have a 5 year panel warranty! Correct it does, but LG will not help with that repair at all after 1 year. Basically you have to setup your own repair with an authorized local tech (paying their repair/labor fees). The tech will work with LG to secure the new panel at no cost to you if that is the issue. There is still the need to work with few and far between repair techs that have sketchy track records and may downright ghost or ignore you entirely. It's a busted system.
So now I essentially have a barely functioning high-end OLED with no hope of getting it fixed about 380 days after purchase. Enjoy your picture quality while you can folks! It won't last.
A NEW daily record high was set in Boulder on Sunday July 26th at 102°, breaking the prior record of 98° from 1935.
Additional "fun" facts:
LG G4 83". Started getting flickering the last couple days after the TV is on for a couple hours. Seems heat related. Just appears as fast flickering. Happens in PC, console, and webOS so it's not a specific cable, source or port issue.
The video is what it looks like slowed down greatly. It looks like it renders half a frame and shifted half up. This appears as a flicker at normal speed.
TV is probably about 12-18 months old. Hopefully the 5 year panel warranty covers this on the G series....
While the magnitude of the ongoing heatwave this week won't be historic in Boulder, the duration could be, with ~9 consecutive days reaching 95° or hotter. NOTE: The exact end of the heatwave is still in fluctuation, but it appears to be sometime between July 18th and 22nd.
Despite records being destroyed in parts of MT/WY/UT/ID, we recently discussed why this specific heat dome pattern isn't going to be that hot in Boulder, and just how close we may have come this time to experiencing similar all-time record highs as well: https://bouldercast.com/colorados-almost-extreme-heatwave-heres-what-may-save-us/
EDIT: The not "that" hot comment references the fact that Boulder will mostly sit between 95-100 degrees for this heatwave which isn't that uncommon here. Over the last decade, we average about 10 days above 95 degrees per summer, with our average highs this time of year right at 89 degrees. Getting over 100 degrees is much less common. Also throw in fact that many people seemed to believe based on media hype that we would see 105-110 degrees temperatures this week due to very early highly uncertain weather model runs.
Most of the Denver Metro area saw PM2.5 air quality spike to Unhealthy levels Saturday night as fireworks, both city-run and illegal private shows, lit up the skies. Firework smoke generally cleared out within a couple hours, returning to pre-firework levels by ~2AM in most cases.
Once again, on the upwind side of the Metro area and without any city fireworks, Boulder actually saw a PM2.5 minimum occur during the time when most other cities were breathing in the high levels of metal-rich smoke from fireworks.
This is something we discussed last year: https://bouldercast.com/cleaner-air-is-just-another-reason-that-official-city-fireworks-will-never-return-to-boulder/
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EDIT: Data /graph source: Purple Air cf3.4 conversion: https://map.purpleair.com/air-quality-standards-us-epa-aqi?q=purpleair.com&opt=%2F1%2Fm%2Fi%2Flp%2Fa10%2Fp604800%2FcALT%7C3.4&select=98051#10.11/40.0851/-105.1204 .If you want to make similar timelines, click some dots in your city/neighborhood and a graph will appear in the top left. Zoom to the timeline you want. Export to PNG.
Smelling smoke in Boulder? It's not from any local fires, but it is funneling in at ground level now with air quality tanking and campfire smells abound...
Seems like a bad bug...
I recently had an issue where my killswitch was pressing down one of the rear buttons on the Xbox Ally X. I thought it was a driver bug and did all kinds of troubleshooting but it turns out to be the case which fixed the issue when I removed it.
That said, now that I took off the killswitch the device feels so much better. So much lighter and feels much nicer in the hands. It's refreshing and despite valuing the protection and kickstand, I'm staying naked.
Give it a try it will blow you away.
No clue what gets me into this situation of having context menus stuck over games but nothing seems to fix it but a full reboot of the device.
Any tips?
Super annoying.
I noticed the other day while playing Kiln on PC that popping a rare achievement somehow played a diamond achievement sound. I popped multiple rare achievements but couldn't figure it out. It's still the same stupid windows 11 notification pop up for the achievement (no fancy spinning diamond pop up or anything), but the sound was there. I'm not 100% sure but I feel maybe the don't sound from windows 11 notification also played with the diamond sound also. Is the diamond sound coming from the game itself because it is a first party game?
Haven't been able to reproduce this on any other game.
Weird.
Boulder’s largest May snowstorms:
*Data back to 1947. There are some pretty snow Mays further back where daily snowfall data is not available to confirm single or multiple storms. Likely there were some big May snows in 1895-1930 timeframe that would make this list.
NOTE: This post will be updated leading up to and during the event.
UPDATE (Tue May 5 2026 8AM): Snow totals bumped up a tad
No major changes are needed to the forecast this morning, other than bumping up totals by a couple inches in most locations due to higher confidence that heavy wet snow will fall most of Tuesday night and all of Wednesday morning. This magnitude of snow will bring significant tree and power line damage from this event. We recommend shaking off your trees periodically and parking cars away from trees. A hard freeze will occur Wednesday night (temps 23 to 28°) so drain above ground pipes, disconnect hoses and protect your plants!
Update Snow Forecast Amounts:
Everything else remains on-track with our post from yesterday below. Let's hope this moisture does wonders for our vegetation and animals which have been suffering. Happy Snow and Namaste!
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Original Post (Mon May 4 2026 @ 11AM)
After another warm spring weekend, the Front Range is about to get slammed back into winter. A surprisingly potent May storm is lining up for Colorado, and this one checks every box: deep Pacific moisture, prolonged upslope, and a perfectly timed blast of cold air. The result? A high‑impact, late‑season snowstorm with big moisture totals and a real risk of tree damage and power outages.
Some spotty rain or storms arrive Monday evening, but the main event hits Tuesday into Wednesday. Snow levels crash from 7,500 feet Tuesday morning to below 5,000 feet by evening, setting the stage for 18 to 24+ hours of wet, heavy snow across Boulder County.
The real danger comes Tuesday night, when the sun goes down and all the storm ingredients overlap. Intermittent snowfall rates of 1–2"/hour will stick efficiently to fully leafed‑out trees, and widespread limb breakage and outages are likely...potentially worse than the May 2022 storm that knocked out power for 100,000+ Denver area residents, many of which were here in Boulder as we received 8 inches of snow.
Travel impacts will be most noticeable in town Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, especially in areas that pick up more than 5" of slushy accumulation.
Timeline Summary:
Snow Amounts:
A hard-ish freeze will occur as well, with lows in the upper 20s Tuesday night and possibly colder Wednesday night if skies clear. Protect sensitive plants and drain any exposed pipes.
Beneficial Moisture Totals:
Ultimately, Mother Nature is giving us a rare opportunity for drought relief, but unfortunately it comes gift-wrapped inside a high‑impact, damaging snowstorm, one that will leave a mark on both our reservoirs and our trees. We'll take it, though!
Finally some historical context ....
Boulder’s largest May snowstorms:
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Our full forecast discussion can be found here (spoiler it's very long, sorry): https://bouldercast.com/colorado-winter-weather-update-a-significant-snowstorm-is-finally-taking-aim-on-the-front-range-in-may/
