A story of a broken car, a broken thermometer, and a broken record. Author: Cory Reppenhagen Updated: 10:51 PM MST February 19, 2021
MOFFAT COUNTY, Colo. Coloradans just experienced a long cold snap with several daily records broken. The lowest temperature in Denver was -16 degrees on Monday, and the lowest temp in the state was -33 in Crook, also on Monday.
That s cold, but nowhere near the all-time state record of -61, which was measured in Maybell on February 1, 1985.
It is the job of climatologists at the Colorado Climate Center to verify temperature records before they can be classified as official, and on that day it was assistant state climatologist Nolan Doesken, his boss, and a meteorologist with the National Weather Service that was tasked with confirming the -61 as a true measurement.