{"id":20967,"date":"2020-09-09T23:59:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T05:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=20967"},"modified":"2020-09-10T05:11:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T11:11:36","slug":"denver-ties-one-cold-weather-temperature-record-for-september-9-breaks-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-ties-one-cold-weather-temperature-record-for-september-9-breaks-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver ties one cold weather temperature record for September 9, breaks another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As our first taste of wintry weather for the season comes to an end, we close it out with two more weather records in the books.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, as measured at Denver International Airport, the temperature dropped to 31 degrees. This ties the Mile High City\u2019s record low for September 9 set in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>The daytime didn\u2019t bring much relief as the high at the airport only reached 42 degrees. This shatters the old record low maximum for the date of 53 degrees set in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Thornton, we matched both of those marks with a low of 31 degrees and a high of 42 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The past few days have seen an extraordinary bout of weather as we went from record heat to record cold. The graphic below shows just some of what has occurred.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50325771983_94ac95894e_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50325771983_94ac95894e_b.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the weather records tied or broken in the first part of September 2020. Click for a larger view. (National Weather Service)\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the weather records tied or broken in the first part of September 2020. Click for a larger view. (National Weather Service)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our first taste of wintry weather for the season comes to an end, we close it out with two more weather records in the books. This morning, as measured at Denver International Airport, the temperature dropped to 31 degrees. This ties the Mile High City\u2019s record low for September 9 set in 1962. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-ties-one-cold-weather-temperature-record-for-september-9-breaks-another\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver ties one cold weather temperature record for September 9, breaks another<\/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":[186,574,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20967"}],"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=20967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20968,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20967\/revisions\/20968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}