{"id":15787,"date":"2015-11-04T16:16:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T23:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=15787"},"modified":"2015-11-05T05:17:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T12:17:53","slug":"october-2015-weather-recap-warmer-and-wetter-than-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/october-2015-weather-recap-warmer-and-wetter-than-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2015 weather recap: Warmer and wetter than normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/742\/22128695939_76dac28f95_c.jpg\" alt=\"A mild October allowed for plenty of outdoor opportunities including amazing sunrises like this one in Thornton along the South Platte River. (Tony's Takes)\" width=\"301\" height=\"201\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mild October allowed for plenty of outdoor opportunities including amazing sunrises like this one in Thornton along the South Platte River. (Tony&#8217;s Takes)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thornton\u2019s October was an unusually warm one with daytime highs more what we would expect in September.\u00a0 It would also have been a dry one were it not for three days of healthy rainfall in the latter third of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The overall average temperature for the month in Thornton was 54.4 degrees.\u00a0 Out at Denver International Airport where Denver\u2019s official readings are taken, the average was a good bit warmer at 56.5 degrees.\u00a0 The 30 year historical average for October is 50.9 degrees so both locations were considerably warmer than normal.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/october-2015-top-shots-monthly-photo-slideshow\/\">October 2015 top shots: Monthly photo slideshow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Temperatures in Thornton ranged from a maximum of 86.8 degrees on the 11th down to 30.5 degrees on the morning of the 28th.\u00a0 Denver\u2019s high and low came on the same dates at 87 degrees and 28 degrees respectively.\u00a0 The high reading on the 11th was a record high for the date.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of precipitation, 1.54 inches fell in Thornton\u2019s rain bucket.\u00a0 Denver bested us with 1.76 inches.\u00a0 Both beat the October average of 1.02 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Snowfall was non-existent during the month.\u00a0 On average the Mile High City sees 4.0 inches of the white stuff in October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/climatedataout102015.html\">Click here to view Thornton\u2019s October 2015 climate report.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-SJUfTMUkBGw\/VjaZPvuheoI\/AAAAAAAADfQ\/k8WgDP3atuE\/s560-Ic42\/2015-10-temps.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado's October 2015 temperatur?e summary.\" width=\"560\" height=\"350\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado&#8217;s October 2015 temperatur?e summary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-7VbgEipwT9M\/VjaZPlXCLGI\/AAAAAAAADfU\/1An0OKNs_H4\/s560-Ic42\/2015-10-precip.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado's October 2015 precipitation summary.\" width=\"560\" height=\"325\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado&#8217;s October 2015 precipitation summary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From the National Weather Service:<\/p>\n<pre>CLIMATE REPORT\r\nNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOULDER, CO\r\n315 PM MST SUN NOV 1 2015\r\n\r\n................................... \r\n\r\n...THE DENVER CO CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2015... \r\n\r\nCLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1981 TO 2010\r\nCLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1872 TO 2015\r\n\r\nWEATHER         OBSERVED          NORMAL  DEPART  LAST YEAR`S\r\n                 VALUE   DATE(S)  VALUE   FROM    VALUE  DATE(S)\r\n                                          NORMAL\r\n................................................................ \r\nTEMPERATURE (F)\r\nRECORD\r\n HIGH              90   10\/01\/1892\r\n LOW               -2   10\/29\/1917\r\nHIGHEST            87   10\/11        83       4       83  10\/15\r\nLOWEST             28   10\/28        22       6       29  10\/27\r\nAVG. MAXIMUM     70.1              65.3     4.8     69.5\r\nAVG. MINIMUM     42.8              36.6     6.2     40.7\r\nMEAN             56.5              50.9     5.6     55.1\r\nDAYS MAX &gt;= 90      0               0.0     0.0        0\r\nDAYS MAX &lt;= 32      0               0.4    -0.4        0\r\nDAYS MIN &lt;= 32      1               8.5    -7.5        4\r\nDAYS MIN &lt;= 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 \r\nPRECIPITATION (INCHES) \r\nRECORD\r\n MAXIMUM 4.17 1969\r\n MINIMUM T 1934 \r\nTOTALS 1.76 1.02 0.74 0.52 \r\nDAILY AVG. 0.06 0.03 0.03 0.02 \r\nDAYS &gt;= .01         6               5.3     0.7        5\r\nDAYS &gt;= .10         3               2.4     0.6        2\r\nDAYS &gt;= .50         2               0.5     1.5        0\r\nDAYS &gt;= 1.00        0               0.1    -0.1        0\r\nGREATEST\r\n 24 HR. TOTAL    0.87   10\/20 TO 10\/21\r\n\r\nSNOWFALL (INCHES)\r\n TOTAL            0.0               4.0\r\nRECORD OCTOBER   31.2                                   1969\r\n\r\nDEGREE_DAYS\r\nHEATING TOTAL     274               440    -166      299\r\n SINCE 7\/1        301               581    -280      394\r\nCOOLING TOTAL      16                 5      11        0\r\n SINCE 1\/1        877               769     108      701\r\n\r\nFREEZE DATES\r\nRECORD\r\n EARLIEST     09\/08\/1962\r\n LATEST       06\/08\/2007\r\nEARLIEST      10\/28             10\/07\r\nLATEST                          05\/05\r\n.................................................. \r\n\r\nWIND (MPH)\r\nAVERAGE WIND SPEED              8.8\r\nRESULTANT WIND SPEED\/DIRECTION   2\/203\r\nHIGHEST WIND SPEED\/DIRECTION    29\/010    DATE  10\/27\r\nHIGHEST GUST SPEED\/DIRECTION    40\/160    DATE  10\/02\r\n\r\nSKY COVER\r\nPOSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT)   MM\r\nAVERAGE SKY COVER           0.60\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS FAIR            6\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS PC             15\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY         10\r\n\r\nAVERAGE RH (PERCENT)     53\r\n\r\nWEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH\r\nTHUNDERSTORM              2     MIXED PRECIP               0\r\nHEAVY RAIN                0     RAIN                       3\r\nLIGHT RAIN                6     FREEZING RAIN              0\r\nLT FREEZING RAIN          0     HAIL                       0\r\nHEAVY SNOW                0     SNOW                       0\r\nLIGHT SNOW                0     SLEET                      0\r\nFOG                       9     FOG W\/VIS &lt;= 1\/4 MILE      3\r\nHAZE                      6\r\n\r\n-  INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.\r\nR  INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.\r\nMM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.\r\nT  INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thornton\u2019s October was an unusually warm one with daytime highs more what we would expect in September.\u00a0 It would also have been a dry one were it not for three days of healthy rainfall in the latter third of the month. The overall average temperature for the month in Thornton was 54.4 degrees.\u00a0 Out at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/october-2015-weather-recap-warmer-and-wetter-than-normal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">October 2015 weather recap: Warmer and wetter than normal<\/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":[12,7],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787"}],"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=15787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15788,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787\/revisions\/15788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}