Temperatures dropped to roughly 22 degrees in Denver early Wednesday, the coldest morning recorded in the city so far this season, according to the National Weather Service.
Weather stations at the Denver International Airport registered morning temperatures of 21.9 degrees just before 6 a.m. Wednesday, according to weather service records.
That’s the coldest Denver morning since April 19, when the daily temperature low was also 22 degrees, according to the weather service.
Denver’s Wednesday morning temperatures dropped about 10 degrees below average, but didn’t come close to the record low of -2 degrees set in 1917, weather service data shows.
According to weather stations around Colorado, other early Wednesday morning temperature lows that dropped below freezing included:
- 23 degrees at the Centennial Airport at 5:53 a.m.
- 19.9 degrees at the Colorado Plains Regional Airport near Akron in northeastern Colorado between 2:53 a.m. and 3:53 a.m.
- 10.4 degrees at the Walden-Jackson County Airport in northern Colorado, near the Wyoming border, at 6:35 a.m.
- 19.9 degrees at the Limon Municipal Airport along Interstate 70 in eastern Colorado at 5:55 a.m.
- 17.1 degrees at the Greeley-Weld County Airport at 4:56 a.m.
- 25 degrees at the Northern Colorado Regional Airport between Fort Collins and Loveland at 3:56 a.m.
- 28.4 degrees at the Boulder Municipal Airport at 6:15 a.m.
- 12.2 degrees at the McElroy Airfield in Kremmling, west of Granby, at 6:35 a.m.
Most of the Front Range remains under a freeze warning Wednesday morning, which is set to expire at 10 a.m., according to weather service forecasters.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
Get more Colorado news by signing up for our daily Your Morning Dozen email newsletter.