It was a wet day in Denver yesterday and the statistics bear that one out.  The official Denver weather monitoring station at Denver International Airport recorded 1.05 inches of precipitation on June 20th.  This easily broke the previous record for the date of 0.50 inch set in 1938.

Here in Thornton we recorded a bit less but still a considerable amount – 0.87 inch.

The record setting rain in Denver does once again highlight the problems with having Denver’s monitoring station at DIA used for comparison to historical records.  The 12 mile move of the station in 1995 from its previous location has skewed Denver’s climate records.

With the event yesterday we see that the station in Denver City Park recorded no rain at all.  Had the National Weather Service logically choose to use this location, or the previous one at Stapleton, as the official source for Denver weather, no record would have been set.

For more on the problems with Denver’s climate records, see here:  Do Denver weather and climate records have an asterisk attached? (Examiner.com)