{"id":16573,"date":"2016-07-11T05:05:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=16573"},"modified":"2016-07-11T05:05:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T11:05:44","slug":"thornton-sees-first-100-degree-temp-in-4-years-denver-breaks-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/thornton-sees-first-100-degree-temp-in-4-years-denver-breaks-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Thornton sees first 100-degree temp in 4 years, Denver breaks record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/record-temperatures.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6123\"><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\" \/><\/a>Sunday dawned with the very real opportunity to be a scorcher and Mother Nature lived up to her promise. Temperatures rose quickly and brought record-setting mercury readings.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Thornton the mercury topped out at 100.4 degrees at 4:22pm. This was our first 100 degree or higher reading since June 26, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Out at DIA where Denver\u2019s official readings are taken, the temperature climbed even higher as clouds were slower to move that way. A reading of 102 degrees was made at 4:01pm.<\/p>\n<p>Both readings exceeded the previous record high temperature for July 10 of 99 degrees set in 1955.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday dawned with the very real opportunity to be a scorcher and Mother Nature lived up to her promise. Temperatures rose quickly and brought record-setting mercury readings. Here in Thornton the mercury topped out at 100.4 degrees at 4:22pm. This was our first 100 degree or higher reading since June 26, 2012. Out at DIA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/thornton-sees-first-100-degree-temp-in-4-years-denver-breaks-record-high\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thornton sees first 100-degree temp in 4 years, Denver breaks record high<\/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":[221,574,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573"}],"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=16573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16574,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573\/revisions\/16574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}