{"id":15623,"date":"2015-09-21T17:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T23:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=15623"},"modified":"2015-09-21T17:06:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T23:06:16","slug":"denver-breaks-130-year-old-high-temperature-record-for-september-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-breaks-130-year-old-high-temperature-record-for-september-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver breaks 130 year old high temperature record for September 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/record-temperatures.jpg\" alt=\"Record setting high temperatures in Thornton.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/record-temperatures.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/record-temperatures-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>With only a couple of days left in summer, Mother Nature seems to be indicating the season won\u2019t go down without a fight.\u00a0 Denver broke a high temperature record today that has been on the books for more than a century.<\/p>\n<p>As officially recorded at Denver International Airport, the high temperature today topped out at 89 degrees.\u00a0 This bests the old record for the date of 88 degrees set in 1885 and is well above the average for today\u2019s date of 77 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Thornton we were only minutely cooler with a high of 88 degrees today.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, we do expect to see some cooling in the days ahead. However, temperatures are expected to remain above normal through at least the weekend.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/forecast.php\">Get the extended forecast here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only a couple of days left in summer, Mother Nature seems to be indicating the season won\u2019t go down without a fight.\u00a0 Denver broke a high temperature record today that has been on the books for more than a century. As officially recorded at Denver International Airport, the high temperature today topped out at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-breaks-130-year-old-high-temperature-record-for-september-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver breaks 130 year old high temperature record for September 21<\/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":[574,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623"}],"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=15623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15624,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions\/15624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}