{"id":11371,"date":"2013-07-19T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=11371"},"modified":"2013-07-19T09:30:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:30:53","slug":"mid-summer-snow-dusts-loveland-ski-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/mid-summer-snow-dusts-loveland-ski-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-summer snow dusts Loveland Ski Area"},"content":{"rendered":"
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July 18, 2013 – Loveland Ski Area received a dusting of snow. While a bit unusual in mid-summer, certainly not unheard of given an altitude at the base of 10,800 feet. (Loveland Ski Area)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At an altitude of 10,800 feet, Loveland Ski Area is certainly in some rarified air.\u00a0 Yesterday the resort saw a dusting of snow while Colorado residents below in the Mile High City simmered in 90+ degree temperatures.<\/p>\n

Snowfall can occur in Colorado\u2019s high country any time of year, even in mid-summer, and yesterday\u2019s event was not particularly unusual.<\/p>\n

Here in Denver however there has never officially been snow in July.\u00a0 The key word though is \u2018officially.\u2019<\/p>\n

Unofficially there has been snow in the Mile High City in July – almost exactly one year ago today in fact.<\/p>\n

Check out this tidbit from the National Weather Service archives:<\/p>\n

“On July 17, 1872\u2026the U.S. Army Signal Service weather observer recorded snowfall during the early morning hours in the hand written daily weather journal: \u201crain commenced at 1:30 a.m. changing about 3 a.m. to snow & in about half an hour to rain again; it continued until 6 a.m.\u201d This is the only recorded occurrence of snowfall in Denver in July\u2026but this report is not included in the \u201cofficial\u201d station snowfall records\u2026which did not begin in Denver until January 1\u20261882. The low temperature on this morning was 45 degrees\u2026which is sufficiently cold for the occurrence of light stratiform snowfall.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At an altitude of 10,800 feet, Loveland Ski Area is certainly in some rarified air.\u00a0 Yesterday the resort saw a dusting of snow while Colorado residents below in the Mile High City simmered in 90+ degree temperatures. Snowfall can occur in Colorado\u2019s high country any time of year, even in mid-summer, and yesterday\u2019s event was … Continue reading Mid-summer snow dusts Loveland Ski Area<\/span> →<\/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":[6],"tags":[160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371"}],"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=11371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11372,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371\/revisions\/11372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}