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Monday, April 29th, 2013 6:04pm MDT
While Colorado isn’t often considered a prime location for earthquakes, temblors can and do occur in the state every year. Many are in less populous locations but can be damaging. Our revamped earthquake page(s) help you keep tabs on the rumbling earth. We revamped our main earthquake page to now include an interactive Google map [...]
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Tags: Earthquakes
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Friday, January 4th, 2013 8:49am MDT
We knew people across northern Colorado loved us but now we know just how much! ThorntonWeather.com experienced record-setting traffic in 2012 with over 2 million pages served. As arguably the most popular, independent weather source in the Denver area, ThorntonWeather.com has seen tremendous growth since it was first started in October 2006. Back then the [...]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013 9:49am MDT
ThorntonWeather.com is provided as a free service to the community simply because we love the weather! However the site and the associated hardware are quite expensive to operate and occasionally we seek our vistors’ help in funding improvements. In the past donations have helped us to replace a faulty temperature sensor. Today we are seeking [...]
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Friday, October 12th, 2012 5:06pm MDT
One of our favorite features of our site is the feed from our NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio that provides not only mundane information like forecasts but also crucial life-saving information during severe weather. Unfortunately the computer sound card that receives the audio feed from our scanner failed two days ago so the audio feed [...]
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Tags: weather radio
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Saturday, September 1st, 2012 5:00am MDT
Our website is constantly changing as new features are added and old ones are updated. Check here to learn what new features have been added lately. If you have a suggestion for a new feature or changes you would like to see, please contact us and let us know! 9/2/12 We’ve updated our monthly tables [...]
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Tags: change log, weather, website
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Monday, August 20th, 2012 11:26am MDT
During Sunday night’s 10:00pm newscast CBS4 meteorologist Dave Aguilera talked about one particularly notable historical weather-related event: massive swarms of grasshoppers over the Mile High City this week in Denver weather history. The graphic Aguilera displayed during the broadcast had details on the event with a credit to ThorntonWeather.com as the event was one of [...]
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Friday, November 25th, 2011 5:41am MDT
It takes a different kind of a person to actually get excited about blizzards, tornadoes, hurricanes and the other types of extreme weather that Mother Nature throws at us. These people are often called weather enthusiasts or weather geeks and if you have someone like this on your holiday shopping list, we have just the [...]
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Tags: gifts, weather geek stuff, weather gifts
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011 5:59pm MDT
Weather is a constant topic here in Colorado thanks to the widely varying conditions we can experience – from snow and Arctic cold to tornadoes and scorching heat. ThorntonWeather.com already works to keep you informed with not only our website but also our Facebook page and via Twitter. Now we have added a new way [...]
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Tags: Facebook, Google, Google Plus, Twitter
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 6:01pm MDT
For more than four years ThorntonWeather.com has been the one and only source for truly local weather for Thornton, Colorado. We are continually improving the site to provide more information and now we have greatly enhanced two of our most popular features. First up and arguably the most exciting is the satellite imagery. Using imagery provided [...]
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Tags: radar, Satellite Imagery
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011 3:11pm MDT
One thing we at ThorntonWeather.com never get tired of talking about is the weather. We recently sat down with the Denver Post’s YourHub and talked to them about our experiences with weather and of course ThorntonWeather.com itself. Journalist Joey Kirchmer and Photojournalist Kristin Morin have done a fine job telling the story about ThorntonWeather.com and [...]
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Tags: YourHub
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