Updated, 5:30pm:  Denver’s official high temperature today reached 74 degrees at 3:08pm, beating the old record of 72 degrees by two.

Original post, 2:39pm:  Denver has officially broken the high temperature record for today, March 2nd.  At 1:52pm the thermometer at Denver International Airport reached 73 degrees, besting the old record of 72 degrees set way back in 1901.  Here in Thornton we were a touch warmer reaching a high of 74.1 degrees.

This afternoon there is a chance the temperature could go a degree or two higher thus further increasing the record.

Is this really a record?  Since moving Denver’s official weather recording station to DIA, many weather enthusiasts believe our weather and climate records are being unduly altered.  Examiner.com just launched an investigative feature into this problem today – check out part 1 of our series on Examiner.com:  Do Denver weather and climate records have an asterisk attached?