{"id":14724,"date":"2014-12-30T23:17:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T06:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=14724"},"modified":"2014-12-31T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T12:20:10","slug":"denver-smashes-two-low-temperature-records-for-december-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/denver-smashes-two-low-temperature-records-for-december-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver smashes two low temperature records for December 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/recordcold-tw-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Record Cold Temperatures\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/recordcold-tw-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/recordcold-tw-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/recordcold-tw.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Our recent blast of Arctic air sent the mercury tumbling and in the process broke two daily records for December 30th.<\/p>\n<p>The official \u201chigh\u201d temperature in Denver, as measured at DIA, reached only 1 degree at 1:23pm.\u00a0 This easily bested the record low high for the date of 8 degrees set in 1915.\u00a0 Thornton was slightly warmer than the airport with a high temperature of 2.4 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, at 9:23pm, the mercury plummeted to -19 degrees at DIA.\u00a0 This crushes the old record low temperature for December 30 of -11 degrees set in 1898.\u00a0 Here in Thornton we did not get quite as cold with a low temperature reading of -12.1 degrees occurring at 10:50pm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Stay up to date with Thornton\u2019s\u00a0weather:\u00a0Be sure to \u2018like\u2019 us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThorntonWeather\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">Facebook<\/a>, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThorntonWeather\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and add us to your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102594403520791765288\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">Google+<\/a>\u00a0circles<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our recent blast of Arctic air sent the mercury tumbling and in the process broke two daily records for December 30th. The official \u201chigh\u201d temperature in Denver, as measured at DIA, reached only 1 degree at 1:23pm.\u00a0 This easily bested the record low high for the date of 8 degrees set in 1915.\u00a0 Thornton was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/denver-smashes-two-low-temperature-records-for-december-30\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver smashes two low temperature records for December 30<\/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":[6,7],"tags":[186,574,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724"}],"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=14724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14727,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724\/revisions\/14727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}