As officially measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City hit a high temperature of 94° at 2:25pm. This broke the old record high temperature for the date of 93° set in 2010, 1990 and 1977.

The problem? No other reliable station in the metro area came anywhere near that high of a temperature reading.

For comparison, Rocky Mountain Regional Airport saw 91°, Centennial 88°, Boulder 91°, Denver City Park 90°, Stapleton 90° and here in Thornton we recorded 91°.

Once again we see how the move of Denver’s official monitoring station to DIA are altering our climate records.  For more details on this controversial topic: The fallacy of Denver’s climate records: Weather station move skews data