Just before midnight last night the mercury dropped to 21 degrees at Denver International Airport setting a record low temperature for the date of April 22.  The breaks the previous record for the date of 22 degrees set 139 years ago in 1874.

Here in Thornton we  couldn’t quite match that with a low temperature yesterday of 22.6 degrees.

Illustrating just how cold it was, the average low temperature for both yesterday’s and today’s date is 35 degrees.  To date Denver’s average temperature during the month of April is an amazing 7.5 degrees below average.

This record is the fifth cold temperature weather record set or tied this month.  Record low temperatures have previously been recorded on April 9, April 10 and April 16.  Also, a record low maximum was measured on April 9.