{"id":18456,"date":"2018-03-01T06:53:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T13:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=18456"},"modified":"2018-03-01T06:53:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T13:53:55","slug":"march-preview-arrival-of-spring-brings-warmer-temps-but-snow-remains-a-significant-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/march-preview-arrival-of-spring-brings-warmer-temps-but-snow-remains-a-significant-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"March preview: Arrival of spring brings warmer temps but snow remains a significant threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The month of February brought some relief to our snow season which up until then had been extremely anemic.\u00a0 However, we still have a long ways to go to reach normal levels.<\/p>\n<p>March usually offers healthy snowfall giving us an opportunity to add to those numbers. \u00a0While there is good snow potential in March, the month also typically brings much warmer temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>March is historically Denver\u2019s snowiest month and brings about 20% of our annual snowfall. \u00a0Heavy, wet spring snow storms can oftentimes bring the entire month\u2019s snowfall total in one monstrous snow.<\/p>\n<p>We also start the transition to spring and severe weather season and the month typically brings our first thunderstorms of the year. \u00a0Temperatures climb throughout the month and by the end our average daytime highs are near 60 degrees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/noaa\/03preview.php\">For a complete look at what lies ahead in March 2018, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/thorntonweather.com\/images\/months\/march-big.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The month of February brought some relief to our snow season which up until then had been extremely anemic.\u00a0 However, we still have a long ways to go to reach normal levels. March usually offers healthy snowfall giving us an opportunity to add to those numbers. \u00a0While there is good snow potential in March, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/march-preview-arrival-of-spring-brings-warmer-temps-but-snow-remains-a-significant-threat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March preview: Arrival of spring brings warmer temps but snow remains a significant threat<\/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":[235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456"}],"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=18456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18457,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456\/revisions\/18457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}