Record-breaking warm winter temperatures continued across the Front Range Friday as three cities either tied or broke their decades-old record high temperatures for the date.
Colorado Springs broke a 102-year-old record with temperatures reaching a high of 65 degrees, Carl Burroughs of the National Weather Service said. The previous record of 63 was set in 1903.
Denver tied its record high for the date, also set in 1903, with a high of of 66. Pueblo reached a high of 74, breaking its old record of 69 set in 1954.
A ridge of high pressure over the Western United States is pushing north most of the winter storms that keep temperatures cool in Colorado, or keeping precipitation in the mountains.
“The mountains are getting significant snow, but here along the Front Range and eastern plains, it’s just the way the upper air pattern is set up that it keeps the storms away, Burroughs said.
No significant cooling was expected over the next five days, Burroughs said.
