{"id":17112,"date":"2016-12-17T20:14:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T03:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=17112"},"modified":"2016-12-19T07:03:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T14:03:43","slug":"denver-sets-record-low-temperature-for-december-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-record-low-temperature-for-december-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver sets record low temperature for December 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/recordcold-tw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3434 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/recordcold-tw.jpg\" alt=\"Record Cold Temperatures\" width=\"324\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/recordcold-tw.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/recordcold-tw-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/recordcold-tw-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a>We knew it was going to be cold today in the wake of our overnight snow and sure enough, the numbers bear that out.<\/p>\n<p>Denver recorded a low temperature of 15 degrees below zero at 7:14pm.\u00a0 This easily bests the record low for December 17 of 13 degrees below zero set in 1909.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Thornton, we managed to stay warmer, although with these extremes, that isn\u2019t saying much. Thornton hit a low of 10.7 degrees below zero at 5:57pm.<\/p>\n<p>The storm system brought 5.8 inches of snow to Thornton, our biggest snowfall of the season. Out at DIA where Denver&#8217;s official measurements are kept, 8.0 inches fell.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Stay up to date with Thornton\u2019s weather:\u00a0Be sure to \u2018like\u2019 us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThorntonWeather\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">Facebook<\/a>, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThorntonWeather\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and add us to your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102594403520791765288\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">Google+<\/a>\u00a0circles<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We knew it was going to be cold today in the wake of our overnight snow and sure enough, the numbers bear that out. Denver recorded a low temperature of 15 degrees below zero at 7:14pm.\u00a0 This easily bests the record low for December 17 of 13 degrees below zero set in 1909. Here in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-record-low-temperature-for-december-17\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver sets record low temperature for December 17<\/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":[186,574,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112"}],"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=17112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17119,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112\/revisions\/17119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}