{"id":20882,"date":"2020-08-17T18:33:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T00:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=20882"},"modified":"2020-08-18T08:37:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T14:37:37","slug":"denver-sets-a-new-record-high-temperature-for-august-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-a-new-record-high-temperature-for-august-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver sets a new record high temperature for August 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hot-Thermometer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-20186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hot-Thermometer-590x266.jpg\" alt=\"Record High Temperature\" width=\"590\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hot-Thermometer-590x266.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hot-Thermometer-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hot-Thermometer-450x203.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hot-Thermometer-768x347.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hot-Thermometer.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Continuing our seemingly unending string of hotter than normal temperatures, today\u2019s readings hit record-setting territory.<\/p>\n<p>As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City\u2019s temperature topped out at 98 degrees today. That breaks the previous record high for August 17 of 97 degrees set in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton was just a touch cooler with a high of 96.6 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third high temperature record set or tied in Denver thus far this month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-record-high-temperature-for-august-9\/\">On August 9th the record high was broken<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-ties-record-high-temperature-for-august-11\/\">on August 11th it was tied<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our seemingly unending string of hotter than normal temperatures, today\u2019s readings hit record-setting territory. As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City\u2019s temperature topped out at 98 degrees today. That breaks the previous record high for August 17 of 97 degrees set in 2013. Thornton was just a touch cooler with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-a-new-record-high-temperature-for-august-17\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver sets a new record high temperature for August 17<\/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\/20882"}],"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=20882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20883,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20882\/revisions\/20883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}