Two very cold days and a third cold weather record has been set with this latest Arctic blast.

As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City’s high temperature today topped out at only 7 degrees. This easily breaks the previous record low maximum for the date of 10 degrees set in 1874.

Here in Thornton, we were able to see the mercury climb a bit higher topping out at 13 degrees.

The record low maximum follows on the heels of record low temperatures set today and yesterday.

Our latest Arctic plunge is coming to an end and with it, a record is broken.

As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City bottomed out at -11 degrees this morning. That breaks the old record low for the date of -7 degrees set just last year in 2022.

Here in Thornton we were similar cold with a low of -10 degrees.

As another Arctic blast settles in, a weather record falls.

As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City bottomed out at -7 degrees today. That breaks the old record low for the date of -6 degrees set in 1913.

Here in Thornton we were a bit “warmer” with a low of -5 degrees.

Yeah, it definitely did not get very warm today and the record books now reflect that. After tying a record low this morning, now we have a new record low maximum.

As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City only saw a high temperature today of 4 degrees. This breaks the previous record low maximum of 4 degrees set more than 100 years ago in 1918.

Here in Thornton, we managed to stay a bit warmer, topping out at 11 degrees.

With our latest big chill having settled in, the mercury is dropping into record-setting territory.

As measured at Denver International Airport, the official low temperature this morning dropped to -10 degrees. This tied the record low for the date last set in 1985.

Here in Thornton, we didn’t plummet quite that low as we bottomed out at -4 degrees.

That’s a wrap! The Arctic blast is slowly on its way out and in its wake, we can see that we set a number of records.

ThorntonWeather.com has been in operation for 16 years and this cold was one for the books.

• The 67.3 degree 24 hour temperature drop from Wed PM (52.7 degrees) to Thu AM (-14.6 degrees) was the biggest of the past 16 years
• The -14.6 degrees low temp on 12/22/22 ties lowest temp recorded in the past 16 years (2/2/2011)
• The 0 degree high temp 12/22/22 is the record low maximum temperature recorded in the past 16 years (old record was 1.9 degrees on 2/5/14)
• A 31.1 degrees wind chill on 12/22 at 8:35am is the coldest wind chill temperature recorded in the past 16 years

For Denver, officially, some marks were set / tied as well.

• The high temperature of -6 degrees on 12/22/22 ties for the 10th coldest high temperature on record. It also is a new record low maximum for the date, breaking the old record of -5 degrees set in 1983.
• The low temperature of -24 degrees on the morning of 12/22/22 ties for the 8th coldest reading ever recorded in Denver.
• The average temperature for 12/22/22 of -14 degrees ties for the 5th coldest daily average temperature recorded in Denver.