{"id":25282,"date":"2025-10-24T08:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=25282"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:55:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:55:47","slug":"thorntonweather-com-enters-its-20th-year-of-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/thorntonweather-com-enters-its-20th-year-of-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"ThorntonWeather.com enters its 20th year of operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25284\" style=\"width: 1536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TW-birthday.jpg\" alt=\"ThorntonWeather.com enters its 20th year of operation. (AI image generated with CoPilot)\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TW-birthday.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TW-birthday-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TW-birthday-590x393.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TW-birthday-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TW-birthday-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ThorntonWeather.com enters its 20th year of operation. (AI image generated with CoPilot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From a random anniversary gift to becoming Colorado\u2019s longest running independent source for weather news and data. Crazy, eh?<\/p>\n<p>It was 19 years ago on October 25, 2006, that ThorntonWeather.com went live and the first bits of live weather data from our weather station were fed to the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>My wife had gotten me a home weather station for our anniversary a few months earlier. It was fun to be able to see what the weather conditions were right where we lived in Thornton \u2013 not DIA or downtown Denver where conditions can be dramatically different.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long though and I soon desired more. I wanted to be able to monitor that weather station from anywhere and thus, with the help of the home weather station community, created the first version of the website.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Did you know ThorntonWeather.com is a completely non-profit venture run by a Thornton resident? \u00a0We are self-funded but do occasionally receive help from members of the community, something which allows us to keep things up and running.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/donate.php\">Learn more about how you can help here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Word soon got out among residents of the north Denver metro area and traffic to the site boomed. Stories in print media helped spread the word.<\/p>\n<p>We are proud to have become a valuable resource for the community providing real time weather data, forecasts, historical climate information, satellite imagery, webcams and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re just \u2018weather geeks\u2019 that love the weather and love our community.\u00a0 Running ThorntonWeather.com can be a bit expensive and it is time consuming to maintain and operate it but it is worth it.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d like to thank all of our visitors for your support in the past and we look forward to continuing to be the best, truly local source for Thornton weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a random anniversary gift to becoming Colorado\u2019s longest running independent source for weather news and data. Crazy, eh? It was 19 years ago on October 25, 2006, that ThorntonWeather.com went live and the first bits of live weather data from our weather station were fed to the Internet. My wife had gotten me a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/thorntonweather-com-enters-its-20th-year-of-operation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ThorntonWeather.com enters its 20th year of operation<\/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":[13,7],"tags":[734,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25282"}],"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=25282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25285,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25282\/revisions\/25285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}