Denver Will Top 100 Consecutive Hours Below Freezing Friday Afternoon

DENVER (CBS4) - Eastern Colorado is nearing the end of a very cold week after an invasion of arctic air arrived Monday morning. The temperature at Denver International Airport fell below freezing just before 11:30 a.m. on Monday and has remained there ever since.

Less than an hour before the temperature fell below 32° on Monday, Denver's official weather station recorded a high of 55° thanks to pre-frontal warming. Since then we've been as cold as -7° on the morning of February 23.

Denver will officially hit 100 hours below freezing just before 3:30 p.m. on Friday.

With the temperature expected to climb above freezing sometime Saturday afternoon it looks like the streak will end somewhere around 120 hours.