With only a couple of days left in summer, Mother Nature seems to be indicating the season won’t go down without a fight.  Denver broke a high temperature record today that has been on the books for more than a century.

As officially recorded at Denver International Airport, the high temperature today topped out at 89 degrees.  This bests the old record for the date of 88 degrees set in 1885 and is well above the average for today’s date of 77 degrees.

Here in Thornton we were only minutely cooler with a high of 88 degrees today.

Looking ahead, we do expect to see some cooling in the days ahead. However, temperatures are expected to remain above normal through at least the weekend.  Get the extended forecast here.