{"id":25500,"date":"2026-02-17T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=25500"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:31:10","slug":"denver-sets-record-high-temperature-for-february-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climatology\/denver-sets-record-high-temperature-for-february-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver sets record high temperature for February 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hot-Thermometer.jpg\" alt=\"Record High Temperature\" width=\"1280\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hot-Thermometer.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hot-Thermometer-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hot-Thermometer-450x203.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hot-Thermometer-768x347.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hot-Thermometer-590x266.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Presidents\u2019 Day in the Mile High City brought pleasant conditions and record-setting temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>As measured at Denver International Airport, Denver\u2019s official high for the date topped out at 68 degrees. This bested the previous record high for February 16 of 67 degrees set in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Thornton, we were cooler, reaching a high of 62 degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidents\u2019 Day in the Mile High City brought pleasant conditions and record-setting temperatures. As measured at Denver International Airport, Denver\u2019s official high for the date topped out at 68 degrees. This bested the previous record high for February 16 of 67 degrees set in 2017. Here in Thornton, we were cooler, reaching a high of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climatology\/denver-sets-record-high-temperature-for-february-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver sets record high temperature for February 16<\/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],"tags":[221,574,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500"}],"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=25500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25501,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions\/25501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}