{"id":1595,"date":"2009-05-19T15:12:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T22:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2009-05-19T15:12:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T22:12:02","slug":"denver-officially-breaks-high-temperature-record-for-this-date-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-officially-breaks-high-temperature-record-for-this-date-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver officially breaks high temperature record for this date"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1596\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1596\" title=\"Denver set a temperature record for today, May 19.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-05-19_1352321.jpg\" alt=\"Denver set a temperature record for today, May 19.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-05-19_1352321.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-05-19_1352321-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denver set a temperature record for today, May 19.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s official.\u00a0 At 1:24pm today the temperature at Denver International Airport reached 90 degrees setting a new record high temperature for May 19.\u00a0 This breaks the previous record high for this date of 89 degrees set in 2006.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wtih some cloud cover moving in and a chance for thunderstorms in the forecast, it appears that is as high as the mercury will climb today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>But is it truly a record?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One does have to wonder though, is it truly fair to call this a record?\u00a0 When the National Weather Service moved Denver&#8217;s official monitoring station from Stapleton to Denver International Airport, some say the city&#8217;s climate records were forever altered.\u00a0 For more information and analysis of the controversy, check out this story:\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><span style=\"color: #006699;\">Do Denver weather and climate records have an asterisk attached?<\/span><\/strong><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/ga.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official.\u00a0 At 1:24pm today the temperature at Denver International Airport reached 90 degrees setting a new record high temperature for May 19.\u00a0 This breaks the previous record high for this date of 89 degrees set in 2006.\u00a0 Wtih some cloud cover moving in and a chance for thunderstorms in the forecast, it appears that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-officially-breaks-high-temperature-record-for-this-date-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver officially breaks high temperature record for this date<\/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":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"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=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}