Late afternoon thunderstorms and showers began falling yesterday and continued through midnight. Areas to the east and north, including Denver International Airport, saw more precipitation than other locations and DIA set a daily rainfall record as a result.
Denver’s official rainfall total for July 29 came in at a healthy 1.80 inches. The previous 24 hour precipitation record for the date was 1.44 inches back in 1989. Precipitation records in Denver began in 1872.
Here in Thornton we recorded 0.82 inches for the date. While well short of Denver’s number, that is still a great deal of rain.