{"id":24684,"date":"2024-12-16T03:03:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=24684"},"modified":"2024-12-16T05:03:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T12:03:31","slug":"denvers-christmas-weather-history-shows-it-isnt-usually-a-white-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denvers-christmas-weather-history-shows-it-isnt-usually-a-white-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver&#8217;s Christmas weather history shows it isn&#8217;t usually a white one"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24685\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24685\" style=\"width: 2480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhiteChristmas_1991-2020normals_2480px_nostatelabels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhiteChristmas_1991-2020normals_2480px_nostatelabels.jpg\" alt=\"Historical probability of at least 1 inch of snow on the ground on Christmas. (NOAA)\" width=\"2480\" height=\"1840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhiteChristmas_1991-2020normals_2480px_nostatelabels.jpg 2480w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhiteChristmas_1991-2020normals_2480px_nostatelabels-450x334.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhiteChristmas_1991-2020normals_2480px_nostatelabels-590x438.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhiteChristmas_1991-2020normals_2480px_nostatelabels-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhiteChristmas_1991-2020normals_2480px_nostatelabels-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhiteChristmas_1991-2020normals_2480px_nostatelabels-1536x1140.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhiteChristmas_1991-2020normals_2480px_nostatelabels-2048x1519.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2480px) 100vw, 2480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Historical probability of at least 1 inch of snow on the ground on Christmas. (NOAA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As Christmas gets closer everyone always wonders if we are going to get the proverbial white Christmas. Unfortunately, if you look at Denver and Thornton weather history, the chances aren\u2019t all that good but it also depends on what you define as a white Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>If to you a white Christmas means having actual snowfall on Christmas Day the chances are pretty poor. But, if simply having snow on the ground suffices, the chances improve considerably.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/christmas.php\"><strong>For a complete look at Denver\u2019s Christmas weather statistics, click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest Thornton weather forecast for Christmas,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/wx2.php\">check out our forecast page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Christmas gets closer everyone always wonders if we are going to get the proverbial white Christmas. Unfortunately, if you look at Denver and Thornton weather history, the chances aren\u2019t all that good but it also depends on what you define as a white Christmas. If to you a white Christmas means having actual snowfall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denvers-christmas-weather-history-shows-it-isnt-usually-a-white-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver&#8217;s Christmas weather history shows it isn&#8217;t usually a white one<\/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":[195,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684"}],"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=24684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24686,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684\/revisions\/24686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}