{"id":17855,"date":"2017-09-03T17:27:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T23:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=17855"},"modified":"2017-09-03T17:27:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T23:27:28","slug":"denver-sets-a-new-record-high-temperature-for-september-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-a-new-record-high-temperature-for-september-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver sets a new record high temperature for September 3"},"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>Whew! Is this September or July?\u00a0 As expected the mercury kept on climbing today and did indeed get into record-setting territory.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:53pm the temperature at Denver International Airport where the Mile High City\u2019s official records are kept reached 97 degrees.\u00a0 This easily bests the previous record high for the date of 95 degrees set in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally the reading tied the record for hottest September temperature.\u00a0 Six other times in the past the mercury reached 97 degrees during September occurring on September 1, 1995, September 4, 1960, September 4, 1995, September 5, 1899, September 5, 2013, and September 6, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Thornton, we were actually warmer than DIA (a rarity).\u00a0 Temperatures here topped out at 98.5 degrees at 1:20pm.<\/p>\n<p>While above normal temperatures (but not record-setting) are expected for tomorrow, we do expect to see a significant cool down Tuesday then see things bounce back to readings a bit above normal for the balance of the week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/forecast.php\">See the extended forecast here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew! Is this September or July?\u00a0 As expected the mercury kept on climbing today and did indeed get into record-setting territory. At 1:53pm the temperature at Denver International Airport where the Mile High City\u2019s official records are kept reached 97 degrees.\u00a0 This easily bests the previous record high for the date of 95 degrees set &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-a-new-record-high-temperature-for-september-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver sets a new record high temperature for September 3<\/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":[221,574,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17855"}],"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=17855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17856,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17855\/revisions\/17856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}