{"id":19404,"date":"2019-02-05T03:35:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T10:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=19404"},"modified":"2019-02-06T06:32:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T13:32:53","slug":"january-2019-weather-recap-wetter-than-normal-temperatures-near-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/january-2019-weather-recap-wetter-than-normal-temperatures-near-average\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2019 weather recap: Wetter than normal, temperatures near average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally! Our winter thus far had been quite dry so seeing some precipitation in January was a very welcome change. Temperatures were just a bit above normal.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the month was short on any sort of real weather drama with no major storms or particularly notable temperature extremes.\u00a0 However, a series of storm systems did give us a bit of a roller coaster of weather with five different snow events over the month.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/january-2019-top-shots-monthly-photo-slideshow\/\">January 2019 top shots: Monthly photo slideshow<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>January started out with a very cold New Year\u2019s Day but soon saw warmer temperatures arrive. Our first snow came on the 11<sup>th<\/sup> and 12<sup>th<\/sup>. This was followed by some smaller events and finally our biggest snowfall of the month on the 28<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton\u2019s average temperature for the month came in at 31.3 degrees. This was a bit warmer than Denver\u2019s long term overage for January of 30.7 degrees. Out at DIA where Denver\u2019s official readings are taken, it was a bit warmer with an average of 32.0 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Our mercury readings ranged from a low of 2.2 degrees on the 1st and the 2nd to a high of 61.1 degrees a few days later on the 4th.\u00a0 Denver\u2019s lowest reading was 5 degrees below zero on the first and its warmest of 62 degrees came on the 4th.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of precipitation, Denver averages 0.41 inches of liquid precipitation during January. Thornton easily bested that with an even 1 inch in our bucket. Denver was above average as well with 0.75 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Snowfall in Thornton saw above normal levels with a total for the month of 10.9 inches. Denver, as usual, lagged with 6.2 inches of the white stuff. The 30 year average for Denver for January is 7.0 inches.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/climatedataout12019.html\">Click here to view Thornton\u2019s January 2019 climate report<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19405\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-04_053420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-04_053420-590x293.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado's January 2019 temperature summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"590\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-04_053420-590x293.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-04_053420-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-04_053420-450x223.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-04_053420.jpg 737w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado&#8217;s January 2019 temperature summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19406\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-04_053443.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-04_053443-590x298.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado&#039;s January 2019 precipitation summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"590\" height=\"298\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-04_053443-590x298.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-04_053443-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-04_053443-450x228.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-04_053443.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado&#8217;s January 2019 precipitation summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<pre>CLIMATE REPORT\r\nNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER\/BOULDER CO\r\n1026 AM MST FRI FEB 1 2019\r\n\r\n...................................\r\n\r\n...THE DENVER CO CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2019...\r\n\r\nCLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1981 TO 2010\r\nCLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1872 TO 2019\r\n\r\nWEATHER         OBSERVED          NORMAL  DEPART  LAST YEAR`S\r\n                 VALUE   DATE(S)  VALUE   FROM    VALUE  DATE(S)\r\n                                          NORMAL\r\n................................................................\r\nTEMPERATURE (F)\r\nRECORD\r\n HIGH              76   01\/27\/1888\r\n LOW              -29   01\/09\/1875\r\nHIGHEST            62   01\/04        76     -14       68  01\/09\r\nLOWEST             -5   01\/01       -29      24       -4  01\/16\r\nAVG. MAXIMUM     44.6              44.0     0.6     49.2\r\nAVG. MINIMUM     19.5              17.4     2.1     20.1\r\nMEAN             32.0              30.7     1.3     34.7\r\nDAYS MAX >= 90      0               0.0     0.0        0\r\nDAYS MAX <= 32      6               5.5     0.5        3\r\nDAYS MIN <= 32     29              29.4    -0.4       28\r\nDAYS MIN <= 0       1               1.7    -0.7        2\r\n\r\nPRECIPITATION (INCHES)\r\nRECORD\r\n MAXIMUM         2.35   1883\r\n MINIMUM         0.01   1933\r\n                        1934\r\n                        1952\r\nTOTALS           0.75              0.41    0.34     0.54\r\nDAILY AVG.       0.02              0.01    0.01     0.02\r\nDAYS >= .01         6               4.1     1.9        5\r\nDAYS >= .10         2               0.9     1.1        2\r\nDAYS >= .50         0               0.0     0.0        0\r\nDAYS >= 1.00        0               0.0     0.0        0\r\nGREATEST\r\n 24 HR. TOTAL    0.45   01\/11 TO 01\/11           01\/21 TO 01\/21\r\n\r\nOBSERVED          NORMAL  DEPART  LAST YEAR`S\r\n\r\nSNOWFALL (INCHES)\r\nTOTALS            6.2               7.0\r\nRECORD           24.3  1992\r\n\r\nDEGREE_DAYS\r\nHEATING TOTAL    1016              1063     -47      932\r\n SINCE 7\/1       3388              3531    -143     3082\r\nCOOLING TOTAL       0                 0       0        0\r\n SINCE 1\/1          0                 0       0        0\r\n\r\nFREEZE DATES\r\nRECORD\r\n EARLIEST     09\/08\/1962\r\n LATEST       06\/08\/2007\r\nEARLIEST                        10\/07\r\nLATEST                          05\/05\r\n.................................................................\r\n\r\nWIND (MPH)\r\nAVERAGE WIND SPEED              9.9\r\nRESULTANT WIND SPEED\/DIRECTION   4\/214\r\nHIGHEST WIND SPEED\/DIRECTION    40\/290    DATE  01\/07\r\nHIGHEST GUST SPEED\/DIRECTION    54\/350    DATE  01\/22\r\n\r\nSKY COVER\r\nPOSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT)   MM\r\nAVERAGE SKY COVER           0.50\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS FAIR           10\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS PC             17\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY          4\r\n\r\nAVERAGE RH (PERCENT)     58\r\n\r\n\r\n-  INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.\r\nR  INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.\r\nMM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.\r\nT  INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally! Our winter thus far had been quite dry so seeing some precipitation in January was a very welcome change. Temperatures were just a bit above normal. Overall, the month was short on any sort of real weather drama with no major storms or particularly notable temperature extremes.\u00a0 However, a series of storm systems did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/january-2019-weather-recap-wetter-than-normal-temperatures-near-average\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">January 2019 weather recap: Wetter than normal, temperatures near average<\/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":[197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19404"}],"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=19404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19408,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19404\/revisions\/19408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}