For the second day in a row and the third time during February 2016, the Mile High City set a daily high temperature record.
At 2:59pm Denver International Airport topped out at 75 degrees. This easily bested the previous record high temperature for February 16 of 70 degrees set in 1970. Here in Thornton we matched Denver’s high with 74.7 degrees coming at 2:35pm.
Yesterday Denver’s high temperature reading of 67 degrees broke the high temperature for that date (previously 66 degrees in 1986). On February 10th, Denver reached 80 degrees making it not only the warmest reading for that date but also the warmest February temperature ever recorded.