The hottest March in Summit County’s modern history continued this weekend.
On Saturday and Sunday, March 21 and March 22, Summit officially broke 70 degrees Fahrenheit at the record-keeping station in Dillon.
The high of 70 degrees on March 21 clobbered the old record of 61 degrees from 2004. The high of 71 degrees on March 22 beat the old record of 63 degrees, also from 2004.
That makes four consecutive days with record-high temperatures, breaking the previous heat streak of three new records from Christmas.
And Summit didn’t just break records during this streak – it smashed them by up to 9 degrees. It was also the first time the Dillon 1 E station broke 70 degrees in mid-March.
The unprecedented heat streak might continue. If we hit the forecasted high of 63 today, we will match the record from 2004. By Wednesday high temperatures are back in the low 70s.
Summit’s Hottest in History (March 21)
- 2026… 70 degrees Fahrenheit
- 2004… 61 degrees
- 1997… 60 degrees
- T-2007, 1945… 57 degrees
Summit’s Hottest in History (March 22)
- 2026… 71 degrees Fahrenheit
- 2004… 63 degrees
- 2017… 58 degrees
- 1997… 57 degrees
- 1972… 56 degrees
Closing early at Cooper
Record heat forced Ski Cooper to call it a season yesterday. Cooper closed with less than half its average snowfall of 250 inches. It was a lean season from the beginning at Cooper, where slope managers told Krystal 93 they were trucking in snow from the parking lots to keep the base area open. Cooper is one of the last remaining Colorado hills with no snowmaking.