{"id":19245,"date":"2018-12-03T06:06:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T13:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=19245"},"modified":"2018-12-03T06:06:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T13:06:59","slug":"thorntons-december-weather-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/thorntons-december-weather-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Thornton&#8217;s December weather preview: Will the chilly weather continue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Thornton's December weather preview\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/December-Preview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/>November brought Thornton cooler than normal temperatures and a bit more snow than usual.\u00a0 What will December hold for us?<\/p>\n<p>The month of December brings with it the official start of winter and oftentimes, colder and snowier weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>It however can also offer unseasonably warm temperatures and bone dry conditions. \u00a0Given our recent mild and dry weather, we are certainly hoping for a change in the coming month.<\/p>\n<p>Overall December&#8217;s monthly mean temperature of 30.0 degrees (1981 &#8211; 2010 averages) makes it our coldest month. \u00a0Snow is always on everyone&#8217;s mind this time of year but December is only our 3rd snowiest month behind March and November with an average of 8.5 inches of the white stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/noaa\/12preview.php\">Get all the details on Thornton\u2019s December weather including a look back at historical events and a look at the long range forecast in our December weather preview here.<\/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>November brought Thornton cooler than normal temperatures and a bit more snow than usual.\u00a0 What will December hold for us? The month of December brings with it the official start of winter and oftentimes, colder and snowier weather conditions. It however can also offer unseasonably warm temperatures and bone dry conditions. \u00a0Given our recent mild &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/thorntons-december-weather-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thornton&#8217;s December weather preview: Will the chilly weather continue?<\/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":[156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19245"}],"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=19245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19247,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19245\/revisions\/19247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}