Our bone-chilling blast of cold air continued its record-setting ways on Wednesday as two cold temperature records fell.
The official high temperature for the day only reached 6 degrees in Denver as measured at Denver International Airport. This easily bested the previous record low maximum for the date of 9 degrees set in 1916. Here in Thornton we were slightly warmer with a high of 8.4 degrees.
Additionally, clearing skies late in the day aided in sending the mercury plunging after dark leading to the second record.
Before midnight the temperature dropped to a miserable -13 degrees at DIA. This shattered the previous record low temperature for November 12 of -4 degrees set 132 years ago in 1882. Thornton managed to stay quite a bit warmer, dropping only to -4.7 degrees just before midnight.
The Mile High City will also be setting a record low temperature for November 13. The old record of -3 degrees was set in 1916. We will have to see how cold it gets in the early morning hours to see what the final number ends up being.