State Lists Identify Coldest Augusts in Oregon and Colorado

Overview

• Local outlets KTVZ and KRDO republished Stacker’s top-10 NCEI compilations on Monday, presenting state-by-state rankings of the coldest Augusts since 1895.
• The Oregon list names August 1899 as the coldest August with a 57°F average statewide temperature while Colorado’s list ranks August 1927 as the coldest at 61.4°F.
• Stacker’s method uses monthly average temperatures from the National Centers for Environmental Information and ranks months by the lowest statewide average temperature.
• Each entry includes the state average for the month, the statewide monthly high and low temperatures, and total precipitation, and the republished pieces provide no new causal analysis.
• The lists highlight long-term variability by showing older months dominate cold rankings and they sit alongside earlier Stacker work and NCEI notes that recent hot Augusts have clustered in the 2020s, which reflects a longer-term warming trend.