{"id":21176,"date":"2020-12-03T05:40:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T12:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=21176"},"modified":"2020-12-03T05:40:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T12:40:54","slug":"thorntons-december-weather-preview-winter-arrives-in-earnest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/thorntons-december-weather-preview-winter-arrives-in-earnest\/","title":{"rendered":"Thornton\u2019s December weather preview: Winter arrives in earnest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/denver-december.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado's December Weather Preview\" width=\"609\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/denver-december.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/denver-december-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/denver-december-450x254.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/denver-december-590x333.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recent months have, overall, been warmer and drier than normal.\u00a0 Last month continued that trend.\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> and follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThorntonWeather\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent months have, overall, been warmer and drier than normal.\u00a0 Last month continued that trend.\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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/thorntons-december-weather-preview-winter-arrives-in-earnest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thornton\u2019s December weather preview: Winter arrives in earnest<\/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":[156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176"}],"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=21176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21177,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176\/revisions\/21177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}