Mother Nature obviously hasn’t gotten the message that it is now September and fall is here.  Once again Denver broke a record high temperature – the fourth time we have tied or broken a record this month. 

According to the National Weather Service the temperature at Denver International Airport reached 92 degrees at 3:55pm.  This shatters the old record high for the date of 89 degrees that was set twice, once in 1994 and before than in 1892.

Here in Thornton we were a couple of degrees cooler as we reached a high of 89.7 degrees at 2:41pm.

This is the fourth time this month that we have tied or set a new record high temperature and September 2010 may very well end up as one of the top 10 warmest on record. 

As of midnight the average temperature in Denver during September had been 67.0 degrees.  If the month were to have ended then we would be in a tie with 1939 for the 7th warmest September on record (see list below). 

With temperatures forecast to remain in the mid-80s on Wednesday and around 80 on Thursday it is very possible September 2010 will fit on that top 10 list somewhere.  We are certain to far exceed the average September temperature of 62.4 degrees. 

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DENVER’S 10 WARMEST SEPTEMBERS
(1873-2009)