Arctic Blast Brings Record-Breaking Temperature Drop

By Callie Zanandrie, CBS Denver:

We saw a drastic temperature drop on Wednesday at Denver International Airport. According to the National Weather Service in Boulder at 3:53 pm it was 42 degrees and by 4:53 pm it was 5 degrees, dropping 37 degrees. Making it the largest one hour temperature drop recorded at DIA. The previous biggest one hour drop was from 41 degrees to 6 degrees on January 27, 2007.

Cold will stick around today and Friday. First Alert Weather Days have been declared for Thursday through Friday for the extremely cold weather.

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