One high temperature record fell yesterday, another fell today. Despite the month starting with snow, we have quickly moved to temperatures more like we would expect to see in March.
As measured at Denver International Airport, the high temperature today for the Mile High City reached 74 degrees. That easily bests the old record for today’s date of 71 degrees set in 1987 and years prior. Here in Thornton we managed to be a couple of degrees warmer reaching 76 degrees at 1:53pm.
Today’s record mark follows yesterday’s record setting reading of 70 degrees. That beat the old record high of 67 degrees set in 1944. Thornton came in at 69 degrees yesterday.
Additionally, yesterday’s official lowest reading of 46 degrees at DIA broke Denver’s record high minimum for the date. The old record was 41 degrees set in 1930. Thornton was cooler yesterday morning with a low mark of 40 degrees that would not have broken the record.