DENVER (KDVR) — Denver set a new record low on Wednesday, with the coldest temperature ever recorded on Feb. 19 dropping to minus 7 degrees.
According to Pinpoint Weather Meteorologist Travis Michels, temperatures at the Denver International Airport hit minus 7 degrees at around 4:45 a.m., before slowing rising to a chilly minus 6 degrees by 4:53 a.m.
The last time Denver was nearly this cold on Feb. 19 was in 2006 when the National Weather Service recorded minus 4 degrees.
Wednesday was the coldest temperature ever recorded on Feb. 19 dropping to minus 7 degrees. (KDVR)While temperatures dipped below the record for Wednesday, it's not the coldest temperature of the winter season.
Between Jan. 18 and Jan. 20, temperatures dipped to minus 10, minus 11 and minus 14 degrees in Denver -- which is still nowhere near the historically coldest temperature. NWS recorded the coldest temperature in Denver at minus 29 degrees in January 1875, but it will still be cold for the next few days.
Winter storm leaves several ski areas with over 200 inches for the seasonThree additional Pinpoint Weather Alert Days have been issued on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for cold temperatures and more snow. This comes after two Pinpoint Weather Alert Days on Monday and Tuesday for cold, snow and hazardous travel.
Wednesday and into Thursday will stay below freezing, before a warmup on Thursday afternoon and into Friday. Denver will start to warm up into the last week of February when temperatures could be over 65 degrees as early as Monday.
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