{"id":1294,"date":"2009-03-07T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2009-03-07T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T15:57:00","slug":"four-weather-records-broken-in-recent-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/four-weather-records-broken-in-recent-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Four weather records broken in recent days"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1295\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1295\" title=\"Sunny skies on Wednesday, March 4th helped Denver break a 137 year old high temperature record.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/chpark131.jpg\" alt=\"Sunny skies on Wednesday, March 4th helped Denver break a 137 year old high temperature record.\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/chpark131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/chpark131-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunny skies on Wednesday, March 4th helped Denver break a 137 year old high temperature record.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Denver officially broke the high temperature record on Wednesday, March 4th.\u00a0\u00a0At 12:40pm the temperature at Denver International Airport reached 76 degrees, breaking the old record of 74 degrees set in 1872.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This marks the 4th weather record we have broken in just the week.\u00a0In addition to Wednesday&#8217;s mark, we have had:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m3d1-February-2009-becomes-Denvers-least-snowiest-February--Or-was-it\" target=\"_blank\">February 2009 became the least snowiest February on record<\/a> with only a trace recorded.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m3d2-Denver-officially-breaks-high-temperature-record-for-March-2nd\" target=\"_blank\">March 2nd set a\u00a0new high temperature record of 74 degrees<\/a>, beating the old record of 72 set in 1901.<\/li>\n<li>March 3rd sets new record high minimum.\u00a0 Overnight temperatures got down to only 47 degrees, beating the old record of 44 set in 1925.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are very dry right now and could really use some significant precipitation as snowfall totals are less than half of what they normally are by this time of year.\u00a0 Is there hope?\u00a0 We remember back to 2003 when we were in a similar dry condition and two major storms helped to turn things around.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m3d6-2009-has-been-dry-but-dont-forget-the-big-snowstorms-of-2003\">Click here to read about that on Examiner.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are these really records and is it fair to compare these measurements with historical data?\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m3d2-Do-Denver-weather-and-climate-records-have-an-asterisk-attached\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Check out our Examiner.com investigation to see why some say these records should have an asterisk attached to them.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/ga.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver officially broke the high temperature record on Wednesday, March 4th.\u00a0\u00a0At 12:40pm the temperature at Denver International Airport reached 76 degrees, breaking the old record of 74 degrees set in 1872.\u00a0\u00a0 This marks the 4th weather record we have broken in just the week.\u00a0In addition to Wednesday&#8217;s mark, we have had: February 2009 became the &hellip; 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