Warmest part of CO?

[Hschlick84]

Cortez can get fairly hot in the summer, I stayed at a hotel there in 2012 coming back from the Grand Canyon, and it was barely above 100 F.

[JessieDesolay]

I went to all this trouble to reply to this question about the balmiest place in Colorado, and now I see the question was posted when we were all much younger. Nonetheless :
The Buena Vista/ Chaffee County area is referred to as the Banana Belt for good reason. It's less extreme at both ends of the thermometer, and it has much more than just the climate to recommend it, unless you're a city person like me. Even so I love going down there for weekends and holidays with my family. It's a great area, and I love seeing the collegiate peaks when I look out the window of our cabin down there. My 2 cents

[wilberry]

when your average person could buy that " Cabin " in the mountains and go down to the " Banana Belt. Pueblo can get really hot in the summer and to go up to the mountains to the vacation cabin that you bought for 25k in 1978 ....when you were just a kid, That Colorado is GONE forever, gone, dead,gone. now its all about MONEY. so get some MONEY.

[otowi]

The Arkansas River Valley is probably the consistently hottest part of Colorado, or at least in the top few spots - including places like Lamar, La Junta, and Pueblo.

[COcheesehead]

The Grand Valley can hit 100+ in summer, but a 40 minute ride up onto the Grand Mesa drops the temp 30 degrees.
That heat though followed by cool nights is what ripens all those peaches, grapes, plums, pears…in the valley.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by J.Michael

Jazz thats for all the information, Weatherbase is going to help thanks. I understand Colorado is either White or Brown. I am not too sure really what I want. I like the snow but I like the heat as well... minus the humidity that the east has..

Thanks

Be careful what you wish for. Heat kills. There have been a number of deaths from heat stroke in AZ, CA, and elsewhere, of people going out for a simple day hike or morning hike, who collapsed from the heat. Looking for a happy medium is best.


edit: NECRO-THREAD, people! Someone revived an 8-year-old thread just to say the "old days" in CO were long gone?

[NW Crow]

Relative to general state climate, elevation is key to average temperatures, north-south position matters some. West - East position affects precipitation and wind / storm system paths.

Dug up threads at least show some effort at digging, using what is already there.

[davebarnes]

Downtown Denver.
Above the steam lines.

[McGowdog]

Originally Posted by otowi

The Arkansas River Valley is probably the consistently hottest part of Colorado, or at least in the top few spots - including places like Lamar, La Junta, and Pueblo.

I'd agree with Lamar or LaJunta. Lamar is consistently 5 to 10 hotter than Pueblo.

Once in a while Grand Junction is hotter than Pueblo, but I doubt hotter than Lamar.

Lamar was so hot this last summer, methheads been reinstalling copper tubing back into the hvac units, so I've heard.