If you’re wondering, you were probably right. It really isn’t supposed to be this cold this far along into spring in Denver. What’s happening this week is for the record books – a total of four so far.
Thursday night, and Friday morning, cold records were dashed. The low temperature record for April 16 of 22 degrees set in 2013 fell when the thermometer crashed down to 19 degrees. April 17’s record set way back in 1901 fell when the low plunged to 12 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Boulder.
They weren’t even the first cold records of the week. Low temperature records were broken on Monday and Tuesday, when another winter storm rolled through Denver.
The previous record lows for April 13 was 14 degrees were both set back in 1933. On Monday, the temperature plummeted to 16 degrees, eclipsing the previous low of 17 degrees and on Tuesday, the low was 11 degrees, the NWS said.
Luckily a more comfortable weather reality is shaping up beginning Friday, when the high temperature will climb to around 46 degrees, the NWS said. On the weekend it will get a tad warmer with highs of 56 on Saturday and 59 on Sunday.
By next work week the highs will range from 64 degrees on Monday to 68 on Thursday, forecasters said.
