Astronomical winter arrives in Thornton Friday afternoon and with the solstice also comes the shortest day of the year. Winter officially begins at 3:23pm MST on Friday, December 21. The Winter Solstice occurs when the North Pole is tilted at its furthest from the sun – 23.5 degrees away. This results in the shortest day […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Rome woke to its first snowfall in six years on Monday as chilling winds from Siberia swept across Europe, bringing freezing temperatures that have claimed at least four lives, closed schools …
Click here for the rest of the story.Astronomical winter arrives in Thornton Thursday morning and with the solstice also comes the shortest day of the year. Mother Nature as well appears set to bring in winter with a bit of a bang and a change in our recent mild, dry weather pattern. Winter officially begins at 9:28am MST on Thursday, December 21. The […]
Click here for the rest of the story.What will this winter have in store for Thornton? Forecasters at the Climate Prediction Center have released their outlook and for the Front Range, it doesn’t hold much in the way of clues. The CPC does show odds favor above average temperatures for much of Colorado for the period from December through February. In terms […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Astronomical winter arrives in Thornton today and with the solstice also comes the shortest day of the year. Winter officially begins at 4:03pm today. The Winter Solstice occurs when the North Pole is tilted at its furthest from the sun – 23.5 degrees away. This results in the shortest day of the year in the […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Strengthening La Niña conditions in the Pacific could lead to another dry winter on the Colorado Front Range according to the winter 2011 / 2012 outlook released by NOAA. However, as we well know, Mother Nature is never consistent and other factors could give us some help. Last year a relatively strong La Niña made […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Old Man Winter didn’t go down without a fight yesterday as he closed out Thornton’s last day of winter with a snowstorm. Today we look to start to bounce back on the first day of spring although temperatures will remain chilly. Yesterday’s snowstorm dumped anywhere from 5 inches of snow on the eastern suburbs to […]
Click here for the rest of the story.It seems so improbable that no one was sure whether or not it has happened before but there was snow on the ground in 49 of the 50 states on Friday. The unlikely event was possible thanks to snow that hit unusual places like Texas and Florida. According to the National Weather Service, 67.1 percent […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Severe cold weather has enveloped the northern half of the globe from the United States to Britain to China. Across the continents, many places are reporting record setting temperatures and lives have been lost due to the Arctic chill. The eastern half of the United States saw cold, Arctic air pulled down from the north […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Christmas in Thornton was certainly a white one thanks to the snow we received in the days leading up to the holiday. The morning of Christmas Eve we headed out and took some photos near the old Eastlake grain elevator and Eastlake Reservoir. The slideshow below has some of the best photos – hope you […]
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