Colorado Springs on Friday set a new daily high temperature record for Aug. 8 after temperatures reached 97 degrees at 3:40 p.m., according to the National Weather Service in Pueblo.

The previous record of 96 degrees was set in 1969.

For Aug. 8, Colorado Springs typically sees a high of 85 degrees and a low of 58, according to weather service climate data.

"We typically hit our records in the summer from time to time, so this isn't really out of the ordinary," Kathleen Torgerson, a meteorologist with the weather agency, told The Gazette.

Outside of El Paso County, Alamosa set a new daily high temperature record of 91 degrees, breaking its previous record of 88 set in 1962 and 2000.

Torgerson said individual records are not indicative of climate change, but it "certainly seems plausibl

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