{"id":22808,"date":"2022-11-03T06:49:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=22808"},"modified":"2022-11-04T05:12:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:12:50","slug":"october-2022-weather-recap-mild-temps-not-much-precipitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/october-2022-weather-recap-mild-temps-not-much-precipitation\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2022 weather recap: Mild temps, not much precipitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52474719190_c42b0baf1d_c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52474719190_c42b0baf1d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado October 2022 Temperature Summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"587\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado October 2022 Temperature Summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>October 2022 goes into the books as one that saw Thornton experience above normal mercury readings and below normal precipitation. However, those were also a formula for a great number of pleasant, fall days.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Thornton\u2019s average temperature for the month came in at an even 52.0 degrees. As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City\u2019s average temperature for the month was a good bit warmer coming in at 53.8 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Both readings were above Denver\u2019s long term October average of 51.1 degrees and Thornton\u2019s running 16-year average of 49.5 degrees.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/october-2022-top-shots-monthly-photo-slideshow\/\">October 2022 in pictures \u2013 view the monthly photo slideshow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thornton saw a maximum temperature of 81.2 degrees occurring on the 20th and our coldest reading of 27.2 degrees occurred on the 29th. Denver maxed out at 79 degrees on the 20th as well and bottomed out 30 degrees on the 28th.<\/p>\n<p>Precipitation was fleeting during the month and we were quite dry until the final week. Thornton totaled 0.43 inches in the bucket. Denver had a little bit more at 0.46 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Both location\u2019s totals were far below average. Denver\u2019s long-term average for October is 0.99 inches while Thornton\u2019s 16 year running average is at 1.04 inches.<\/p>\n<p>While we did see some snowflakes mixed in with rain on the 27th of the month, it did not accumulate so we are still waiting for that first official snowfall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/climatedataout102022.html\">Click here to view Thornton\u2019s complete October 2022 climate summary report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 588px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52474253101_459bcaeb18_c.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado October 2022 Precipitation Summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"588\" height=\"295\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado October 2022 Precipitation Summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2022 goes into the books as one that saw Thornton experience above normal mercury readings and below normal precipitation. However, those were also a formula for a great number of pleasant, fall days. Overall, Thornton\u2019s average temperature for the month came in at an even 52.0 degrees. As measured at Denver International Airport, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/october-2022-weather-recap-mild-temps-not-much-precipitation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">October 2022 weather recap: Mild temps, not much precipitation<\/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":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22808"}],"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=22808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22810,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22808\/revisions\/22810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}