Posts Tagged ‘Denver Weather Examiner’
Thursday, August 4th, 2011 6:20am MDT
Does a move of 12 miles make a difference in what type of weather is seen in Colorado? Longtime residents know that our weather can vary greatly over short distances and this has many questioning the placement of Denver’s official weather monitoring station. From 1871 to 1949 Denver’s weather was recorded at the National Weather [...]
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Tags: Denver International Airport, Denver Weather Examiner, DIA, Examiner.com, national weather service
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Monday, July 4th, 2011 3:29pm MDT
Certainly anyone who has studied the Founding Fathers is well aware of Benjamin Franklin’s electrifying kite-flying experience. What many Americans may not know is that he was one of the first storm chasers and his fellow signer of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, was a weatherman in his own right. Benjamin Franklin’s interest in [...]
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Tags: 4th of July, Ben Franklin, Denver Weather Examiner, Examiner.com, Independence Day, Thomas Jefferson
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Monday, December 27th, 2010 4:52pm MDT
From the southern United States to the mid-Atlantic and New England a major winter storm has had a wide impact in recent days. Some areas of the south recorded their first Christmas snow in decades and as the storm moved further northeast it turned into a major blizzard. Snow fell as far south as Jacksonville, [...]
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Tags: blizzard, december weather, Denver Weather Examiner, Examiner.com, Natural Disasters Examiner, New York, Pennsylvania, winter weather
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Sunday, September 19th, 2010 5:56am MDT
It seems like it had been a while since Colorado suffered a major wildfire and summer had indeed passed quietly in those terms – until Labor Day. Spurred on by strong winds and fed by tinder dry fuels the Fourmile Canyon Fire in Boulder County soon exploded and served as a reminder that the fire [...]
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Tags: Denver Weather Examiner, Examiner.com, Fourmile Canyon Fire, Reservoir Road Fire, Wildfire
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 11:12am MDT
Triple digit heat broiled the northeastern United States on Tuesday while record setting cool weather struck southern California. Denver may be next to see cool temperatures for the record books as the United States experiencing a wide variety of temperatures. Slideshow: In pictures – Residents across the northeast try to beat the heat On the [...]
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Tags: California, Denver Weather Examiner, Examiner.com, New York, Pennsylvania, record temperatures
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 4:39pm MDT
For the second year in a row, a team of over 100 scientists and dozens of vehicles will take to Tornado Alley in an attempt to study one of Mother Nature’s most destructive phenomena. Like last year, Colorado researchers will be helping with the project. Among the Colorado-based participants are University of Colorado students and [...]
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Tags: Denver Weather Examiner, Examiner.com, tornado, VORTEX2
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 4:57pm MDT
While there was plenty of notable weather last month in the United States including the severe winter storms in the northeast, tornadoes were not one weather phenomena anyone had to worry about. According to the National Weather Service, there were no twisters reported during February 2010 – the first time since record keeping began in [...]
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Tags: Denver Weather Examiner, Examiner.com, February weather, tornadoes, weather record
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 7:36am MDT
A relatively rare New Year’s Eve blue moon will be shining down on revelers as they ring in 2010. Blue moons are relatively common but it has been 19 years since one was coupled with December 31st and it will be another 19 years before another occurs. Since the 1940s the term ‘blue moon’ has [...]
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Tags: Astronomy, Denver Weather Examiner, Examiner.com, moon
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009 4:51pm MDT
It only took 14 years but Denver finally has an official monitoring station near downtown again. The new station amongst the greens of City Park Golf Course finally gives residents of Denver a place to see what the weather is doing closer to home. With the opening of Denver International Airport in 1995, the National [...]
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Tags: Climatology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver Weather Examiner, Mike Nelson, national weather service, NOAA, Nolan Doesken, weather stations
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009 6:57am MDT
We are oftentimes asked why we have links to Examiner.com on ThorntonWeather.com and why we plug stories from them. The reasons stem from our interest on the topics at hand but also because by your visiting Examiner.com, you support ThorntonWeather.com. Some background on Examiner.com might be useful. Examiner.com was launched in 2008 by Clarity Media [...]
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Tags: Climate Change Examiner, Denver Weather Examiner, Examiner, Examiner.com, Natural Disasters Examiner
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