{"id":14942,"date":"2015-02-23T18:56:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T01:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=14942"},"modified":"2015-02-24T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T14:58:35","slug":"february-2015-quickly-climbing-ranks-of-snowiest-februarys-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/february-2015-quickly-climbing-ranks-of-snowiest-februarys-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2015 quickly climbing ranks of snowiest Februarys on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of 5:00am this morning, Denver&#8217;s February 2015 ranks as the sixth snowiest February on record.With more snow expected mid-week, it is highly likely the month will climb up the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>How does Thornton compare? Denver&#8217;s total for the month is 17.7&#8243; but we are ahead of that at 19.4&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that Denver&#8217;s measurement is taken at DIA and has been since 2008. Prior to that it was taken at Stapleton (1950-2007) and downtown (1882-1949). This year Stapleton is at 22.9&#8243; for the month, enough that it would rank as the snowiest February on record had the official location for measuring snowfall not been moved.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-oLHqAS3zGtA\/VOugJWozBkI\/AAAAAAAAMXM\/yz7H8JLpkKc\/s560\/Snowiest2.jpg\" alt=\"Snowiest Februarys on record in Denver, Colorado.  (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowiest Februarys on record in Denver, Colorado. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of 5:00am this morning, Denver&#8217;s February 2015 ranks as the sixth snowiest February on record.With more snow expected mid-week, it is highly likely the month will climb up the rankings. How does Thornton compare? Denver&#8217;s total for the month is 17.7&#8243; but we are ahead of that at 19.4&#8243;. It should be noted that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/february-2015-quickly-climbing-ranks-of-snowiest-februarys-on-record\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">February 2015 quickly climbing ranks of snowiest Februarys on record<\/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":[681,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14942"}],"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=14942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14943,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14942\/revisions\/14943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}