{"id":10830,"date":"2013-04-16T07:56:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=10830"},"modified":"2013-04-16T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:56:57","slug":"time-lapse-video-captures-thorntons-tax-day-snowstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/time-lapse-video-captures-thorntons-tax-day-snowstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Time lapse video captures Thornton\u2019s Tax Day snowstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"April 15, 2013 - Snow far exceeding forecast amounts made for a wintry tax day in Thornton. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/-EPgRMic2Fhk\/UW1YRVWx7WI\/AAAAAAAAAS4\/uIdwxClDr-k\/h400\/2013-04-16_075452.jpg\" alt=\"2013-04-16_075452.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April 15, 2013 - Snow far exceeding forecast amounts made for a wintry tax day in Thornton. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mother Nature delivered a potent blast of wintry weather for Tax Day catching forecasters and residents off guard.\u00a0 The mid-April snowstorm brought a hefty shot of snow and cold temperatures to Denver and northeastern Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Two days before the event models pointed to significant snowfall for Tax Day.\u00a0 Soon however those same models shifted their target to the north and the metro area was only expected to receive light snow.<\/p>\n<p>The heavy snow moved further south than anticipated however and by mid-afternoon on Monday, April 15 the storm was getting started in earnest.\u00a0 Snowfall rates of up to 2 inches per hour were seen from then through midnight.<\/p>\n<p>The video below captures 24 hours of the event from 6:00am on April 15 to 6:00am to April 16.\u00a0 Only light snow is seen through about 2:00pm on the 15th before things really start to pick up.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9rul1jgFF_I\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Nature delivered a potent blast of wintry weather for Tax Day catching forecasters and residents off guard.\u00a0 The mid-April snowstorm brought a hefty shot of snow and cold temperatures to Denver and northeastern Colorado. Two days before the event models pointed to significant snowfall for Tax Day.\u00a0 Soon however those same models shifted their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/time-lapse-video-captures-thorntons-tax-day-snowstorm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time lapse video captures Thornton\u2019s Tax Day snowstorm<\/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":[380,323,482,244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830"}],"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=10830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10831,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions\/10831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}