After snow over the weekend, Denverites may experience temperature whiplash as highs are expected to encroach on the 90s later this week.

While March may historically be Denver’s snowiest month, that won’t be the case this week.

According to the National Weather Service’s Boulder Office, the high at Denver International Airport for Wednesday is forecasted at 79 degrees. Temperatures will continue to climb, hitting a high of 86 on Saturday before Sunday drops to a high temperature of 64. 

For the entire Denver area, the projected high for Saturday is 89 degrees.

Conditions this week will be sunny and hot, according to the NWS, with some wind gusts as high as 28 mph on Wednesday and 16 mph on Thursday.

9News meteorologist Chris Bianchi posted to X Tuesday noting that high temperatures in Denver the rest of this week will be higher than those in Miami. 9News is The Denver Gazette’s news partner.

Temperatures and conditions in South Florida will be rainy and in the low-to-mid 70s this week, according to the NWS, making Denver a better Spring Break location — weather-wise, anyway — than Miami.

Those high temperatures will also set records for the hottest temperatures recorded in March in Denver, according to NWS historical data. The previous hottest temperature recorded in March was 84 degrees in 1971.

NWS Meteorologist Maggie Ideker said the projected highs will also likely break daily high temperature records for March 19, March 20 and March 21. Previous highs of 81 and 80 degrees for March 19 and March 20 were set in 1907, she said, while the previous record of 78 degrees for March 21 was set in 1955.

An area of high pressure in the southwestern United States is bringing up warm and dry air to Colorado, Ideker said, in addition to breezy winds. With those pockets continuing to stay over the southwest, Ideker said, there will be a jump in high temperatures in Colorado.

Along with the high temperatures come dry conditions which, combined with the wind gusts forecast for Wednesday and Thursday, bring an elevated risk of wildfires, Ideker said. 

While high temperatures will drop down to the 60s at the end of this weekend, Ideker said, highs will climb back up again to the mid-70s by Tuesday of next week.

“So, we will get a reprieve from those really record-breaking warm temperatures,” Ideker said. “However, we are expected to warm back up at the beginning of next week, mid-70s by Tuesday, unfortunately, so that quick shot of cooler air is short-lived.”