Denver officially broke the high temperature record on Wednesday, March 4th. At 12:40pm the temperature at Denver International Airport reached 76 degrees, breaking the old record of 74 degrees set in 1872.
This marks the 4th weather record we have broken in just the week. In addition to Wednesday’s mark, we have had:
- February 2009 became the least snowiest February on record with only a trace recorded.
- March 2nd set a new high temperature record of 74 degrees, beating the old record of 72 set in 1901.
- March 3rd sets new record high minimum. Overnight temperatures got down to only 47 degrees, beating the old record of 44 set in 1925.
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. Is there hope? We remember back to 2003 when we were in a similar dry condition and two major storms helped to turn things around. Click here to read about that on Examiner.com.
Are these really records and is it fair to compare these measurements with historical data? Check out our Examiner.com investigation to see why some say these records should have an asterisk attached to them.