{"id":1604,"date":"2009-05-24T02:51:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T09:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2009-05-24T02:51:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T09:51:49","slug":"saturday-storms-bring-heavy-rain-funnel-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/saturday-storms-bring-heavy-rain-funnel-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday storms bring heavy rain, funnel cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1606\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1606\" title=\"Funnel cloud\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-05-24_033248.jpg\" alt=\"This funnel cloud was over north central Aurora Saturday afternoon.  Photo was taken from the Bennett area.\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-05-24_033248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-05-24_033248-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This funnel cloud was over north central Aurora Saturday afternoon. Photo was taken from the Bennett area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saturday afternoon\u2019s thunderstorms brought some pretty interesting weather to Denver and the Front Range.\u00a0 Our wettest and cloudiest month seems to be intent on finishing out right on par with what we would expect this time of year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thunderstorms and showers moved across the metro area in the late afternoon Saturday producing thunder, lightning and rain across much of the area.\u00a0 Some stations on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainweather.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky Mountain Weather Network<\/a> reported quite heavy rain, particularly those on the west side of town.\u00a0 Some of the rain totals along the Front Range since yesterday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arvadawx.com\" target=\"_blank\">Arvada<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1.17 inches<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broomfieldweather.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Broomfield<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 1.03 inch<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mywindsorweather.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Windsor<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 0.37 inch<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reunionweather.com\" target=\"_blank\">Commerce City (Reunion)<\/a> \u2013 0.39 inch<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reifheck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Denver (West)<\/a> \u2013 0.35 inch<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\">Thornton<\/a> \u2013 0.14 inch<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exceptionalweather.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parker<\/a> \u2013 0.08 inch<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverwx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Denver (North)<\/a> \u2013 0.04 inch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In yesterday\u2019s forecast we warned of the possibility of landspouts which are small, short-lived tornadoes.\u00a0 None were observed however a funnel cloud was reported over north central Aurora about three miles south of DIA at 4:50pm.\u00a0 The funnel lasted about two minutes and never touched down and did not cause any damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday afternoon\u2019s thunderstorms brought some pretty interesting weather to Denver and the Front Range.\u00a0 Our wettest and cloudiest month seems to be intent on finishing out right on par with what we would expect this time of year.\u00a0 Thunderstorms and showers moved across the metro area in the late afternoon Saturday producing thunder, lightning and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/saturday-storms-bring-heavy-rain-funnel-cloud\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday storms bring heavy rain, funnel cloud<\/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":[45,51,268,260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604"}],"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=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}