With bone chilling cold having settled in along the Colorado Front Range, we knew a weather record had to fall and one did. Denver set a record low maximum temperature for February 1.
The official high temperature as measured at Denver International Airport only climbed to a high of -1 degrees. This broke the previous record low maximum for this date of 2 degrees set in 1985. Here in Thornton we fared a bit better hitting 2.7 degrees at 1:07pm.
As noted by the National Weather Service, this is the first time since January of 1997 that Denver saw a high temperature below zero degrees. On January 12th and 13th of the year, the high only reached to -1 degrees.
Will more records fall with this cold spell? It is definitely possible. Low temperatures overnight on Tuesday and into Monday morning are forecast to approach 18 degrees below zero. The record low temperature for February 2nd is -17 set way back in 1901.
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