A record-setting day in the Mile High City.  At 2:57pm today the temperature at DIA climbed to 100 degrees thus breaking the record high for the date.  The old record was 99 degrees last set in 1990.

Also, the date will go down in history as having had the record high minimum as the mercury dipped to only 69 degrees at 5:38am.  That handily beat the previous record of 66 degrees set in 1940.

Here in Thornton we weren’t quite as warm.  Our high temperature topped out at 97.5 degrees at 4:23pm.  On the other end, our morning low was considerably cooler as we dropped to 60.3 degrees at 6:08am.

The National Weather Service also points out some interesting information about today’s heat:

“Although official records are not recorded for an average daily temperature…a few interesting statistics have been found for today’s excessive warmth. Today’s average daily temperature was a very warm 84.5 degrees. When we look at the average daily temperatures for this date in history…today was by far the warmest for June 18th. The old warmest average daily high temperature for June 18th was 81.5 degrees set back in 1936.”

“The average daily temperature of 84.5 degrees also ties with June 24th, 1954 as the 2nd warmest daily average ever for the month of June in Denver.

“The warmest daily average temperature for the month of June is 85.5 degrees and it occurred on June 27th, 1990.”