{"id":10953,"date":"2013-05-02T07:26:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T13:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=10953"},"modified":"2013-05-02T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T14:20:49","slug":"denver-breaks-low-temperature-record-for-date-ties-all-time-may-low-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-breaks-low-temperature-record-for-date-ties-all-time-may-low-temperature\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver breaks low temperature record for date, ties all time May low temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Denver’s recent cold continued as this morning one low temperature record was broken, another tied.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the wake of our May Day snowstorm, clear skies the following morning allowed temperatures to plummet and reach very winter-like levels.\u00a0 As the mercury bottomed out, Denver broke one low temperature record and tied another.<\/p>\n

As measured at Denver International Airport, the temperature this morning dropped to 19 degrees at 6:41am.\u00a0 This easily breaks the previous record low temperature for May 2 of 22 degrees \u00a0set in 1954.<\/p>\n

Most notably, the 19 degree reading also tied the record for the lowest temperature ever recorded during the month of May since record keeping began in Denver in 1872.\u00a0\u00a0 We have to go all the way back to May 3, 1907 to find a reading that low during May.<\/p>\n

Here in Thornton we were quite cold as well although not quite as much as DIA.\u00a0 Our morning low temperature of 20.7 degrees was seen at 6:00am.<\/p>\n

The cold and snowy start to May mimics what was seen during the month of April. \u00a0Last month Denver recorded its fifth coldest and 11th snowiest April on record.<\/p>\n