{"id":24515,"date":"2024-10-02T13:11:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T19:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=24515"},"modified":"2024-12-02T07:19:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:19:24","slug":"september-2024-weather-recap-thornton-sees-its-warmest-september-of-the-past-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/september-2024-weather-recap-thornton-sees-its-warmest-september-of-the-past-17-years\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2024 weather recap: Thornton sees its warmest September of the past 17 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 769px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54038651885_4ac42afae3_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54038651885_4ac42afae3_o.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado's September 2024 temperature summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"769\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado&#8217;s September 2024 temperature summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mother Nature can be so fickle. While September brings the start of autumn, she was intent on keeping summer rolling along and in doing so, delivered mercury readings well above normal.<\/p>\n<p>The month was a calm one, lacking much of any kind of drama beyond the temperatures. We started out very warm and dry for the first three days then, finally, a little bit of relief arrived. Temperatures cooled a bit and we received a nice shot of rain on the 4<sup>th<\/sup> and 5<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/september-2024-top-shots-monthly-photo-slideshow\/\"><strong>September 2024 in pictures \u2013 view the monthly photo slideshow<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the next two weeks, dry conditions dominated with no precipitation. Over the period temperatures remained well above normal.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, on the 21<sup>st<\/sup>, we saw some relief and temperatures on the 21<sup>st<\/sup> and 22<sup>nd<\/sup> were only in the 60s. We also received a welcome shot of rain totaling 0.81 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures rebounded on the 23<sup>RD<\/sup> and dry weather continued through the end of the month.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 632px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54178781994_2364fbf264_o.jpg\" alt=\"September 2024 Climate Location Comparison (\u00a9 ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"632\" height=\"88\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">September 2024 Climate Location Comparison (\u00a9 ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the end, Thornton saw an average temperature for September 2024 of 67.9 degrees. This was far above the running 17-year average for the month of 64.2. In fact, it was Thornton\u2019s warmest September over the period. Temperatures in Thornton ranged from a high of 93.1 degrees on the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> down to a low of 42.7 degrees on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>For Denver, as measured at Denver International Airport, the month was a good bit warmer recording an average of 70.0 degrees. This too was far above the month\u2019s average of 64.8 degrees. Further, it put September 2024 into the books as the Mile High City\u2019s warmest September on record.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton really only saw two rain events but both were pretty decent ones, dropping 1.26 inches into the rain bucket for the month. That was a bit below our September average of 1.48 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Denver recorded very similar numbers with 1.24 inches of precipitation. This was just shy of the Mile High City\u2019s September average of 1.35 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Thornton nor Denver recorded any snow during September 2024.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/climatedataout92024.html\"><strong>Click here to view Thornton\u2019s complete September 2024 climate summary report.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54038651890_86419b7d7e_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54038651890_86419b7d7e_o.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado's September 2024 precipitation summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"770\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado&#8217;s September 2024 precipitation summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Nature can be so fickle. While September brings the start of autumn, she was intent on keeping summer rolling along and in doing so, delivered mercury readings well above normal. The month was a calm one, lacking much of any kind of drama beyond the temperatures. We started out very warm and dry for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/september-2024-weather-recap-thornton-sees-its-warmest-september-of-the-past-17-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">September 2024 weather recap: Thornton sees its warmest September of the past 17 years<\/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":[441],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24515"}],"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=24515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24662,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24515\/revisions\/24662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}