{"id":1287,"date":"2009-03-02T14:39:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2009-03-02T18:09:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T01:09:05","slug":"denver-officially-breaks-high-temperature-record-for-march-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-officially-breaks-high-temperature-record-for-march-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver officially breaks high temperature record for March 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1288\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1288\" title=\"Denver officially set a new record high temperature for March 2nd.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/chpark121.jpg\" alt=\"Denver officially set a new record high temperature for March 2nd.\" width=\"275\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/chpark121.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/chpark121-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denver officially set a new record high temperature for March 2nd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Updated, 5:30pm:\u00a0 Denver&#8217;s official high temperature today reached 74 degrees at 3:08pm, beating the old record of 72 degrees by two.<\/p>\n<p>Original post, 2:39pm:\u00a0 Denver has officially broken the high temperature record for today, March 2nd.\u00a0 At 1:52pm the thermometer at Denver International Airport reached 73 degrees, besting the old record of 72 degrees set way back in 1901.\u00a0 Here in Thornton we were a touch warmer reaching a high of 74.1 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon there is a chance the temperature could go a degree or two higher thus further increasing the record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this really a record?\u00a0 <\/strong>Since moving Denver&#8217;s official weather recording station to DIA, many weather enthusiasts believe our weather and climate records are being\u00a0unduly altered.\u00a0 Examiner.com just launched an investigative feature into this problem today &#8211; check out part 1 of our series on Examiner.com:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m3d2-Do-Denver-weather-and-climate-records-have-an-asterisk-attached\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Do Denver weather and climate records have an asterisk attached? <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated, 5:30pm:\u00a0 Denver&#8217;s official high temperature today reached 74 degrees at 3:08pm, beating the old record of 72 degrees by two. Original post, 2:39pm:\u00a0 Denver has officially broken the high temperature record for today, March 2nd.\u00a0 At 1:52pm the thermometer at Denver International Airport reached 73 degrees, besting the old record of 72 degrees set &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-officially-breaks-high-temperature-record-for-march-2nd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver officially breaks high temperature record for March 2nd<\/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":[106,22,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287"}],"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=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}