Record Breaking Heat On the Final Day of Spring

By Ed Greene

DENVER (CBS4) - We officially hit 99 degrees in Denver today, setting a new record high, breaking the previous record of 97 first set way back in 1875...and summer doesn't officially arrive until 10:24PM Tuesday! So for tomorrow, Wednesday, the first official day of the summer season, we will be hot again, but the record high for June 21 is a bit warmer at 99 degrees, set in 2007, so we may only come close to the record high. We can also expect a few isolated late day storms Wednesday.

Thursday with not quite as warm, but we can still call it hot as we should reach a high right around 90 - and again with a chance for scattered storms. That should be the last hot day into next week - a cold front brings relief to the state...as a result the high on Friday should only be in the upper 70s with just isolated storms. The weekend will be rather pleasant with mild temperatures and a chance for isolated storms both Saturday and Sunday - the highs will stay in the low to mid 70s.

We'll start next week with low 80s on Monday...and a chance for late day storms. Then back to the heat with upper 80s Tuesday...and right back into the 90s for Wednesday and Thursday as we stay mostly dry.

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