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With a Freeze Warning in place following yesterday\u2019s cold front, we knew it was going to be cold and it certainly has been.\u00a0 In fact, it was record-setting.<\/p>\nWith a Freeze Warning in place following yesterday\u2019s cold front, we knew it was going to be cold and it certainly has been.\u00a0 In fact, it was record-setting.<\/p>\n
Just before midnight, the mercury at Denver International Airport dropped to 28 degrees.\u00a0 This tied the record low temperature for the date, October 4, last set 136 years ago in 1877.<\/p>\n
Thornton nearly matched the official Denver numbers with a low of\u00a028.5\u00b0 recorded at 11:57 p.m. \u00a0This was our coldest reading since May 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n The storm system that moved through brought snow to a good part of the Denver metro area.\u00a0 Here in Thornton we measured 0.8\u201d, our first snowfall of the season. \u00a0A total\u00a00.39″ of liquid precipitation (rain and snow melt) was recorded in our bucket.<\/p>\n Inexplicably, the National Weather Service is showing no snow was measured at DIA yesterday morning.\u00a0 This despite the fact that numerous firsthand accounts and pictures posted to social media showed the airport did indeed have measureable snowfall.<\/p>\n We are reaching out to the NWS to get an explanation for the discrepancy and will update this post if \/ when we receive a response.<\/p>\n With a Freeze Warning in place following yesterday\u2019s cold front, we knew it was going to be cold and it certainly has been.\u00a0 In fact, it was record-setting. Just before midnight, the mercury at Denver International Airport dropped to 28 degrees.\u00a0 This tied the record low temperature for the date, October 4, last set 136 … Continue reading Denver ties record low temperature for October 4<\/span> \n