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Thursday, April 13th, 2023 11:59pm MDT
Along with a few days of summer-like heat, nighttime temperatures stayed quite warm for this time of year as well. In fact, they were extraordinarily warm today. As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City’s low temperature today was only 55 degrees. This sets a new record warm minimum for the date, breaking […]
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2023 6:00pm MDT
And another high temperature record bites the dust in Denver today. As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City’s temperature topped out at 85 degrees. This easily bested the previous record high for the date of 79 degrees last set in 2018 and is the second day in a row with a record […]
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 6:00pm MDT
After a long stretch of largely below normal temperatures, spring popped up in a big way today delivering summer-like temperatures that broke records. As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City’s temperature topped out at 85 degrees. This easily bested the previous record high for the date of 80 degrees last set in […]
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 10:00am MDT
A chilly start to the day, indeed, a record-setting one. As measured at Denver International Airport, the low temperature in the Mile High City this morning dropped to 11 degrees. That breaks the previous record low for the date of 12 degrees set in 1983. Here in Thornton, we were a bit warmer with a […]
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 10:11am MDT
Normally, March sees a considerable warmup as we start the transition to spring. If you felt like that was not the case this March, you would be correct. Thornton’s average temperature for March 2023 came in at 37.1 degrees. This was 5.1 degrees below our running 16-year average. In fact, the month goes in the […]
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 5:29am MDT
April marks a transition between winter and summer for most of the country but for Denver it is especially true as we can see a stunning variety of weather. The proverbial April showers are certainly a possibility for Denver. Snow? Tornadoes? Thunderstorms? You bet – all can happen! For good measure throw in a chance […]
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Thursday, March 9th, 2023 5:06am MDT
The biannual ritual of changing our clocks to adjust for Daylight Saving Time occurs this Saturday night providing yet another signal of the changing of seasons. The United States will ‘spring forward’ one hour at 2:00am Sunday morning as we begin Daylight Saving Time. The ritual of changing our clocks twice a year can be […]
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Monday, February 27th, 2023 3:26am MDT
February signifies the start of the climb toward warmer temperatures for the year. Cold and snow though do intrude but, coupled with milder conditions, there are lots of photo opportunities as can be seen in our monthly slideshow. The month is one of our least snowiest of the year but it isn’t unusual to see […]
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 11:59pm MDT
Two very cold days and a third cold weather record has been set with this latest Arctic blast. As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City’s high temperature today topped out at only 7 degrees. This easily breaks the previous record low maximum for the date of 10 degrees set in 1874. Here […]
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 7:12am MDT
Our latest Arctic plunge is coming to an end and with it, a record is broken. As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City bottomed out at -11 degrees this morning. That breaks the old record low for the date of -7 degrees set just last year in 2022. Here in Thornton we […]
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