{"id":24340,"date":"2024-08-06T08:01:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T14:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=24340"},"modified":"2024-08-07T05:11:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T11:11:15","slug":"july-2024-weather-recap-another-warm-one-precip-comes-in-close-to-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/july-2024-weather-recap-another-warm-one-precip-comes-in-close-to-average\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2024 weather recap: Another warm one, precip comes in close to average"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 769px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53906104695_4f2ae2313c_o.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado's July 2024 temperature summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"769\" height=\"385\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado&#8217;s July 2024 temperature summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Certainly, in our minds, July 2024 was a very warm one as it seemed like the 90+ degree days just kept on coming. Average temperatures did come in a good bit above normal. Precipitation wasn\u2019t anything extraordinary and while it ended up close to average, the last half of the month was quite dry.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/july-2024-top-shots-monthly-photo-slideshow\/\">July 2024 in pictures \u2013 view the monthly photo slideshow<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>High pressure was the dominating force for the majority of the month with only intermittent breakdowns of the ridge. As a result, overall hot and dry conditions were the general rule. There were, however, just enough effects from some cold fronts to keep average temperatures relatively in check.<\/p>\n<p>The last 10 days saw only one day with precipitation leading to dry conditions across the Colorado Front Range. This resulted in numerous wildfires in the foothills and smoke blanketing the area for several days.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton\u2019s average temperature for the month was 74.9 degrees. This was a good bit warmer than our running 18-year average for the month of 73.8 degrees. This made July 2024 the sixth warmest July over that period. Temperatures ranged from a maximum of 102 degrees on July 12<sup>th<\/sup> down to a low of 50.7 the morning of the 4<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The Mile High City, as measured at Denver International Airport, came in a good bit warmer with an average mercury reading of 75.7 degrees. This was just a bit above Denver\u2019s long term July average of 75.1 degrees. Denver set record highs on the 12<sup>th<\/sup> and 14<sup>th<\/sup> (102 and 101 degrees respectively) and tied the record high of 99 degrees on the 29<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of precipitation, Thornton received 1.74 inches during the month. Nearly half of that coming over two days on the 20<sup>th<\/sup> and 21<sup>st <\/sup>(0.80\u201d). The total fell short of our running average for the month of 1.95 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Denver\u2019s official rainfall total for the month came in at 1.10 inches. This was well below the city\u2019s July average of 2.14 inches.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/climatedataout72024.html\">Click here to view Thornton\u2019s complete July 2024 climate summary report<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 769px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53905913863_96e6d63fc1_o.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado's July 2024 precipitation summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"769\" height=\"385\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado&#8217;s July 2024 precipitation summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly, in our minds, July 2024 was a very warm one as it seemed like the 90+ degree days just kept on coming. Average temperatures did come in a good bit above normal. Precipitation wasn\u2019t anything extraordinary and while it ended up close to average, the last half of the month was quite dry. July &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/july-2024-weather-recap-another-warm-one-precip-comes-in-close-to-average\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">July 2024 weather recap: Another warm one, precip comes in close to average<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/24340"}],"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=24340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24341,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24340\/revisions\/24341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}