{"id":23363,"date":"2023-08-01T10:04:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T16:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=23363"},"modified":"2023-08-02T04:54:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T10:54:02","slug":"july-2023-weather-recap-a-warm-wet-summer-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/july-2023-weather-recap-a-warm-wet-summer-month\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2023 weather recap: A warm, wet summer month"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 589px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53086987745_60f94ffd5a_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53086987745_60f94ffd5a_o.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado\u2019s July 2023 temperature summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"589\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado\u2019s July 2023 temperature summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After a couple of months of cool, damp weather, we were hoping to warm up and dry out. We did get warmer (perhaps more than we would have liked) but we also continued to see a good bit of precipitation.<\/p>\n<p>The first nine days of the month trended largely toward cooler-than-normal temperatures but overall, it was relatively pleasant with only a couple of hot days. We did also see some good moisture although much fell on a single day (1.25 inches on the 4<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/july-2023-top-shots-monthly-photo-slideshow\/\">July 2023 in pictures \u2013 view the monthly photo slideshow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The middle of the month saw things turn hotter and we recorded back-to-back 100-degree days on the 17<sup>th<\/sup> and 18<sup>th<\/sup>. Rain became less prevalent and was light.<\/p>\n<p>For the final third of the month, we continued to be quite warm with only three of the final 11 days seeing temperatures at or below normal. Otherwise, the readings were a good bit above. Three days of the final 11 also delivered more than a quarter inch of rain each.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton\u2019s overall average temperature for July 2023 came in at 74.1 degrees. That is a bit above the running 17-year average for July of 73.7 degrees. Our warmest reading of 100.5 degrees came on the 25<sup>th<\/sup> while our coolest of 50.2 degrees came on the 1<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>In the Mile High City, at Denver International Airport where Denver\u2019s official readings are now taken, the month was a bit cooler. They had an overall average for July of 73.9 degrees. Two 98-degree days were their warmest and their coolest was 52 degrees on the 21<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of precipitation, Thornton had quite a wet one with 3.07 inches falling in our rain bucket. That was well above the 1.96 inches 17-year average and made July 2023 the fourth wettest July of the past 17 years.<\/p>\n<p>For Denver, DIA recorded 2.10 inches, right on par with the Mile High City\u2019s July average of 2.14 inches and far below what Thornton received.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/climatedataout72023.html\">Click here to view Thornton\u2019s complete July 2023 climate summary report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 589px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53086015502_7bcdae575e_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53086015502_7bcdae575e_o.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado\u2019s July 2023 precipitation summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"589\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado\u2019s July 2023 precipitation summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of months of cool, damp weather, we were hoping to warm up and dry out. We did get warmer (perhaps more than we would have liked) but we also continued to see a good bit of precipitation. The first nine days of the month trended largely toward cooler-than-normal temperatures but overall, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/july-2023-weather-recap-a-warm-wet-summer-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">July 2023 weather recap: A warm, wet summer month<\/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":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23363"}],"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=23363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23369,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23363\/revisions\/23369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}