{"id":17621,"date":"2017-06-05T14:11:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T20:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=17621"},"modified":"2017-06-07T05:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T11:07:06","slug":"may-2017-weather-recap-month-brings-cooler-wetter-than-normal-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climatology\/may-2017-weather-recap-month-brings-cooler-wetter-than-normal-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2017 weather recap: Month brings cooler, wetter than normal conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The month of May 2017 brought a wide variety of conditions.\u00a0 We experienced everything from summer-like temperatures to snow to severe weather with hail. In the end, average temperatures were below normal and precipitation more than double of average.<\/p>\n<p>Between two systems at the start of the month, we began May with cool conditions and a bit of rain.\u00a0 Drier and very warm conditions then arrived on the 5th through the 7th before we cooled down to near normal levels for a couple of days.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/may-2017-top-shots-monthly-photo-slideshow\/\">May 2017 top shots: Monthly photo slideshow<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the 8th of the month, severe weather paid its first visit of the season unleashing heavy rain and most notably, large hail. While Thornton was spared the damage, areas to the south and west were pummeled with hail nearly 3 inches in diameter. The storm goes into the books as the costliest hail storm in Colorado history.<\/p>\n<p>Weather conditions then settled down for the next 10 days with temperatures varying from cool to quite warm.\u00a0 On the 18th of the month, we then received a late season snowfall.\u00a0 Thornton recorded 1.9 inches snow and a healthy 1.64 inches liquid precipitation from snow melt and rain.<\/p>\n<p>The balance of the month was much quieter. Some days saw light rain with temperatures not straying too far from average for the most part.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton\u2019s overall average temperature for the month was 55.5 degrees.\u00a0 This was a good ways below Denver\u2019s long term average for the month of 57.1 degrees.\u00a0 Out at DIA where Denver\u2019s official measurements are kept, it was slightly warmer with an average of 55.9 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures saw a wide range during the month. Thornton\u2019s warmest reading was 87.8 degrees on the 6th of the month.\u00a0 Our coldest came in the wake of the snow on the 20th at 31.0 degrees. Denver saw its high of 86 degrees on the 6th as well and its low of 32 degrees on the 4th.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of precipitation, Denver averages 2.12 inches during the month of May.\u00a0 Both Thornton and Denver easily exceeded those marks.\u00a0 Here in Thornton we recorded 4.84 inches of precipitation; in the Mile High City, 3.66 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Snow in May is not unusual but getting it as late as we did is.\u00a0 On average Denver records 1.1 inches during the month. In May 2017, Thornton saw 1.9 inches.\u00a0 Out at the airport, a mere trace was recorded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/climatedataout52017.html\">Click here to view Thornton\u2019s May 2017 climate report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17622\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/201705-Temps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/201705-Temps-590x354.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado's May 2017 temperature summary.\" width=\"590\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/201705-Temps-590x354.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/201705-Temps-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/201705-Temps-450x270.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/201705-Temps.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado&#8217;s May 2017 temperature summary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17623\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/201705-Precip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/201705-Precip-590x364.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado's May 2017 precipitation summary.\" width=\"590\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/201705-Precip-590x364.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/201705-Precip-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/201705-Precip-450x278.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/201705-Precip.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado&#8217;s May 2017 precipitation summary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The month of May 2017 brought a wide variety of conditions.\u00a0 We experienced everything from summer-like temperatures to snow to severe weather with hail. In the end, average temperatures were below normal and precipitation more than double of average. Between two systems at the start of the month, we began May with cool conditions and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climatology\/may-2017-weather-recap-month-brings-cooler-wetter-than-normal-conditions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May 2017 weather recap: Month brings cooler, wetter than normal conditions<\/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],"tags":[387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621"}],"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=17621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17624,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621\/revisions\/17624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}