{"id":17320,"date":"2017-02-16T16:53:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T23:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=17320"},"modified":"2017-02-16T16:53:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T23:53:30","slug":"denver-sets-record-high-temperature-for-february-16-third-high-temp-record-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-record-high-temperature-for-february-16-third-high-temp-record-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver sets record high temperature for February 16, third high temp record of the month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/record-temperatures.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-16960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/record-temperatures-590x386.jpg\" alt=\"Record High Temperatures\" width=\"350\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/record-temperatures-590x386.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/record-temperatures-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/record-temperatures-450x295.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/record-temperatures.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>For the second day in a row and the third time during February 2016, the Mile High City set a daily high temperature record.<\/p>\n<p>At 2:59pm Denver International Airport topped out at 75 degrees.\u00a0 This easily bested the previous record high temperature for February 16 of 70 degrees set in 1970.\u00a0 Here in Thornton we matched Denver\u2019s high with 74.7 degrees coming at 2:35pm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-record-high-temperature-for-february-15\/\">Yesterday<\/a> Denver\u2019s high temperature reading of 67 degrees broke the high temperature for that date (previously 66 degrees in 1986).\u00a0 On February 10th, Denver reached 80 degrees making it not only the warmest reading for that date but also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-record-for-warmest-temperature-reading-ever-in-february\/\">the warmest February temperature ever recorded<\/a>.<\/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>For the second day in a row and the third time during February 2016, the Mile High City set a daily high temperature record. At 2:59pm Denver International Airport topped out at 75 degrees.\u00a0 This easily bested the previous record high temperature for February 16 of 70 degrees set in 1970.\u00a0 Here in Thornton we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-record-high-temperature-for-february-16-third-high-temp-record-of-the-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver sets record high temperature for February 16, third high temp record of the month<\/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":[223,574,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320"}],"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=17320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17321,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320\/revisions\/17321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}