Denver dropped to its coldest temperatures in more than eight months on Tuesday night, sustaining the hopes of winter-loving Coloradans for a snowy Thanksgiving weekend.
The temperature at Denver International Airport fell to 18 degrees just before 10 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service’s Boulder office.
The last time DIA thermometers dropped that low was 265 days earlier, when the temperature fell to 17 degrees on March 5.
Metro Denver residents are still waiting for the first snow of the season, with this year’s first snowfall likely to be the second-latest on record.
Denver’s latest first snowfall was on Dec. 10, 2021, and the city already surpassed the No. 3 latest snowfall of Nov. 21, 1934, last week.
Denver is also approaching the record for the most consecutive days without snow, according to the National Weather Service. The 2021 record was 232 days and the city has gone 221 days without snow in 2025 as of Wednesday, the fourth-longest streak ever recorded.
Folks sticking close to home for Thanksgiving can expect warm weather on Thursday and Friday, with highs in the 50s, before a cold front brings light snow to northern Colorado starting Friday night and into Saturday morning.
A second storm system could bring another round of light snow on Sunday, forecasters said.
“Snowfall amounts look to be on the lighter side, but with cold temperatures in place, it is expected to be cold enough for roads to become slippery at times,” forecasters wrote on Wednesday.
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