{"id":23411,"date":"2023-08-22T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T06:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=23411"},"modified":"2023-08-22T04:55:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T10:55:50","slug":"denver-sets-record-high-minimum-and-maximum-for-august-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-record-high-minimum-and-maximum-for-august-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver sets record high minimum and maximum for August 21"},"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>Not only did the heat impact the daytime, it kept things quite warm in the night and morning setting two records for the date.<\/p>\n<p>As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City\u2019s low temperature for August 21 was 72 degrees. This was easily warmer than the previous record high minimum for the date of 67 degrees set in 1946 and previous years.<\/p>\n<p>During the day, Denver saw an official high temperature of 99 degrees. This bested the previous record high temperature for the date of 97 degrees set in 2007 and previous years.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Thornton we experienced similar conditions. Our low temperature dropped to only 70 degrees, much warmer than normal. We also were a touch warmer with a high of 100 degrees for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only did the heat impact the daytime, it kept things quite warm in the night and morning setting two records for the date. As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City\u2019s low temperature for August 21 was 72 degrees. This was easily warmer than the previous record high minimum for the date &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-record-high-minimum-and-maximum-for-august-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver sets record high minimum and maximum for August 21<\/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\/23411"}],"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=23411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23412,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23411\/revisions\/23412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}