{"id":16260,"date":"2016-03-28T08:44:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T14:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=16260"},"modified":"2018-03-23T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T17:15:16","slug":"time-lapse-video-thorntons-march-2016-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/time-lapse-video-thorntons-march-2016-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Time lapse video: Thornton\u2019s March 2016 blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1627\/26011392275_0da29eff18_c.jpg\" alt=\"The morning of March 23, 2016 saw the blizzard hit with full force. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The morning of March 23, 2016 saw the blizzard hit with full force. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is hard to believe so much snow can fall over such a short period of time.\u00a0 Over just more than 12 hours Thornton received 21.7 inches \u2013 our biggest snowstorm since 2006.\u00a0 Our east facing webcam captured all the action from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>The video below starts at midnight on the 23rd with dry conditions.\u00a0 By about 2:00am rain falls but that quickly transitions to snow.<\/p>\n<p>It is after daybreak that the storm gets started in earnest and the heavy snowfall almost entirely obscures the view at points.\u00a0 As is typical in Colorado, by mid-afternoon, we actually start to see some blue skies.<\/p>\n<p>The video covers 19 hours in about 39 seconds.\u00a0 There are a few \u2018hiccups\u2019 in the video that you might notice.\u00a0 These were when we had brief power outages.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PDp_YW8gJO8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to believe so much snow can fall over such a short period of time.\u00a0 Over just more than 12 hours Thornton received 21.7 inches \u2013 our biggest snowstorm since 2006.\u00a0 Our east facing webcam captured all the action from start to finish. The video below starts at midnight on the 23rd with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/time-lapse-video-thorntons-march-2016-blizzard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time lapse video: Thornton\u2019s March 2016 blizzard<\/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":[64,323,244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260"}],"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=16260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18530,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260\/revisions\/18530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}