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wind chill warning* remains in effect for most of Colorado today, including the greater Denver metro area. According to the National Weather Service a secondary surge of colder air may help keep temperatures even colder than previously expected. The current temperature is 8 below zero, and is not expected to climb much higher than that today. Tonight temperatures will be approaching record lows with -20 forecast for Denver. Areas with clearing and protected from the wind could see temps drop even lower. With
wind chills near -40 today and tonight, the NWS warns
frostbite on exposed skin is possible within 5 - 10 minutes. Below are images of the current temperatures and wind chills in the U.S. One can only imagine what these maps will look like tonight...
Temperatures will start to moderate a bit come Thursday, but will remain on the cool side through the weekend. Our next chance for snow looks to be Sunday into Monday, with another arctic blast possible. Still way to far out to have any confidence in this at this time.
5 comments:
Does anyone know what the lowest maximum temperature for Denver is? If we stay near -8 or -5, how close to setting a new one are we?
I believe the record low for Denver is -29, but I think we could get close to breaking today's record low tonight.
That's right, the record low in Denver is -29. The record low for Feb 2 is -18... so we could break that tonight!
How about the record lowest high temperature? (I'm sure that stat is out there somewhere!)
Here's the answer to that question: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/product.php?site=bou&product=RER&issuedby=BOU
A new record low max indeed!
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