If you stepped outside Tuesday morning in Denver and thought it hardly felt like Colorado – it wasn’t just you.
It was an oddly muggy morning, and Denver7 meteorologist Danielle Grant explains the obscure weather rarity that caused it.
The humid feeling was thanks to the highest dew point Denver has seen in nearly 20 years. Dew point is the temperature the air needs to be cooled to to reach 100% humidity – or to get dew to form. The higher the dew point, the more moisture that we have out there.
Why was it so muggy Tuesday morning in Denver? The odd weather rarity, explained
Typically, the dew point in Denver, located in a high alpine desert, is in the 40s or 50s. It’s pretty comfortable…