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Weather extremes
How extreme does Crested Butte's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Crested Butte has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Crested Butte has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 18°F hotter than a normal June afternoon in Crested Butte (typical high near 71°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 45°F colder than a normal February night in Crested Butte (typical low near -2°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 96% of a typical March's rain in a single day (Crested Butte averages roughly 2.1 in across the month).
The three most extreme on record
About 74% of a typical January's snow in a single day (Crested Butte averages roughly 42 in across the month).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Crested Butte's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — June's 89°F is about 18°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Crested Butte, a weather station, about 1 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.