We thought the daily high temperature record for November 16 would fall today and indeed it did. However the Mile High City also managed to tie the record for the warmest temperature ever recorded during the month of November.
At 1:24pm the station at Denver International Airport reported a mercury reading of 80 degrees.
This easily bested the previous record high temperature for November 16 of 77 degrees set in 1941.
Perhaps more notably, the reading also ties the all-time record high temperature for the month of November. The old mark was 80 degrees set on November 8, 2006. This is in turn the latest in the year an 80 degree reading has been tallied.
Here in Thornton, we were a bit warmer than DIA. Our temperature topped out at 81.5 degrees at 1:02pm.
Showcasing the wide swings of weather we experience here in Colorado is the fact that after these records today, high temperatures tomorrow won’t go very far into the 40s. Check out forecast for the latest.