{"id":25138,"date":"2025-08-02T05:16:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=25138"},"modified":"2025-08-04T05:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:25:08","slug":"july-2025-weather-recap-above-average-temps-below-average-precipitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/july-2025-weather-recap-above-average-temps-below-average-precipitation\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2025 weather recap: Above average temps, below average precipitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 769px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54699200923_be1721073a_o.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado's July 2025 Temperature Summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"769\" height=\"385\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado&#8217;s July 2025 Temperature Summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you were thinking the past month was hot and dry, you would certainly be correct. Thornton\u2019s July saw average mercury readings a good bit above average and precipitation well below average.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, probably one of the most notable things about the month was that there wasn\u2019t a whole lot notable. We saw nothing significant in the way of severe weather and while it was hot, it wasn\u2019t overly extreme. It was noteworthy that the last two weeks of the month were quite dry yielding only 0.03\u201d of rain over the period.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/july-2025-top-shots-monthly-photo-slideshow\/\"><strong>July 2025 in pictures \u2013 view the monthly photo slideshow<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thornton\u2019s average temperature for the month came in at 75.2 degrees. This was a good bit above our running 18 year average for July of 73.9 degrees. Temperatures ranged from a high of 102.1 degrees on the 9<sup>th<\/sup> down to 55.3 degrees on the 11<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Out at DIA where the Mile High City\u2019s official measurements are taken, similar readings were seen. Denver saw an average temperature for the month of 75.1 degrees. This actually matched their long-term average for July.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of precipitation, Thornton saw 0.63 inches fall in its rain bucket. The majority of that fell during the first half of the month. That is well below our running average for July of 1.88 inches.<\/p>\n<p>For Denver, they recorded similar precipitation with 0.64 inches being recorded. This was well below their July average of 2.14 inches.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/climatedataout72025.html\">Click here to view Thornton\u2019s complete July 2025 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\/54698165542_083ce20e27_o.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton, Colorado's July 2025 Precipitation Summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"769\" height=\"385\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton, Colorado&#8217;s July 2025 Precipitation Summary. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were thinking the past month was hot and dry, you would certainly be correct. Thornton\u2019s July saw average mercury readings a good bit above average and precipitation well below average. Looking back, probably one of the most notable things about the month was that there wasn\u2019t a whole lot notable. We saw nothing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/july-2025-weather-recap-above-average-temps-below-average-precipitation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">July 2025 weather recap: Above average temps, below average precipitation<\/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\/25138"}],"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=25138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25139,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138\/revisions\/25139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}