{"id":10457,"date":"2013-03-04T16:52:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T23:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=10457"},"modified":"2013-03-04T16:52:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T23:52:49","slug":"thornton-receives-quick-shot-of-snow-monday-more-powerful-storm-possible-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/thornton-receives-quick-shot-of-snow-monday-more-powerful-storm-possible-for-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Thornton receives quick shot of snow Monday, more powerful storm possible for the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Snow covers the streets with Thornton's March 4, 2013 snowstorm.  Within a couple of hours the sun was out and the streets were clear. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" href=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/-e4GVLSmUEcM\/UTUzG6o53SI\/AAAAAAAAAP0\/c_gty_Kb9hY\/s0\/2013-03-04_163914.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Snow covers the streets with Thornton's March 4, 2013 snowstorm.  Within a couple of hours the sun was out and the streets were clear. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/-e4GVLSmUEcM\/UTUzG6o53SI\/AAAAAAAAAP0\/c_gty_Kb9hY\/h400\/2013-03-04_163914.jpg\" alt=\"2013-03-04_163914.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow covers the streets with Thornton&#39;s March 4, 2013 snowstorm. Within a couple of hours the sun was out and the streets were clear. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>March is historically the Denver area\u2019s snowiest month and only four days into it Mother Nature delivered a nice, wet shot of the white stuff.\u00a0 The storm moved through quickly Monday afternoon and now we focus on a potentially significant storm this coming weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Today Thornton recorded 2.4 inches of snow and a very welcome 0.15\u201d of liquid precipitation from it.\u00a0 Similar totals, many a bit less, were seen in other locations of the Denver metro area.<\/p>\n<p>This brings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/snow-totals.php\">Thornton\u2019s seasonal snow total<\/a> to 28.9 inches.\u00a0 That is still well below normal but given the progress made in recent weeks, we are hoping these storms continue to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>As we discussed in this morning\u2019s forecast, models are pointing toward a far more significant storm arriving as early as late Friday and lasting well into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>One model, the European ECMWF, has been relatively consistent with its projection of a powerful storm with a hefty shot of snow.\u00a0 Other models have been less optimistic but on later runs today they are starting to come in line with the same thinking.<\/p>\n<p>This system will bear close watching. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/forecast.php\">Click here for the latest forecast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a time lapse video of today\u2019s snow showing 4 hours compressed to 8 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U6hzsXMFh3M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March is historically the Denver area\u2019s snowiest month and only four days into it Mother Nature delivered a nice, wet shot of the white stuff.\u00a0 The storm moved through quickly Monday afternoon and now we focus on a potentially significant storm this coming weekend. Today Thornton recorded 2.4 inches of snow and a very welcome &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/thornton-receives-quick-shot-of-snow-monday-more-powerful-storm-possible-for-the-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thornton receives quick shot of snow Monday, more powerful storm possible for the weekend<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[235,160,482,244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10458,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions\/10458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}