{"id":1731,"date":"2009-07-28T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2009-07-28T05:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T12:26:00","slug":"august-2009-climate-and-weather-preview-posted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/august-2009-climate-and-weather-preview-posted\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2009 climate and weather preview posted"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Thorntons August weather preview.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/images\/months\/august-med.gif\" alt=\"Thorntons August weather preview.\" width=\"200\" height=\"108\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton&#39;s August weather preview.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As summer vacations wind down and families prepare to send their kids back to school in August, Colorado weather also starts to settle down. The chances for severe weather decrease markedly during August and by the end of the month daytime temperatures are dropping quite a bit as well.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the month Denver usually averages around 88 degrees for a high temperature. By the end of August that drops to 82 degrees. Similarly, nighttime lows drop from 60 to 53 from the start to the end of the month. Generally clear skies can be expected between midnight and noon but the afternoon often brings showers and thunderstorms. These storms typically develop over the foothills then bring precipitation to the Denver metro area.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that moisture, the chance for severe weather decreases considerably compared to the first two months of summer. Cooler air near the surface helps to create a stable atmosphere thus keeping thunderstorms from usually becoming too intense. After the middle of August, tornadoes and damaging hail are pretty rare. The slow movement of storms this time of year are more likely to produce potentially heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/noaa\/08preview.php\"><strong>Click here to read the complete preview including a look back at what was a record setting month last year.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As summer vacations wind down and families prepare to send their kids back to school in August, Colorado weather also starts to settle down. The chances for severe weather decrease markedly during August and by the end of the month daytime temperatures are dropping quite a bit as well. At the start of the month &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/august-2009-climate-and-weather-preview-posted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">August 2009 climate and weather preview posted<\/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":[26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731"}],"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=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}