{"id":25773,"date":"2026-08-03T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=25773"},"modified":"2026-08-04T06:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:17:23","slug":"denver-sets-high-temperature-record-for-august-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-high-temperature-record-for-august-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver sets high temperature record for August 3"},"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>The heat has been on throughout the summer and continued today as Denver set another record high.<\/p>\n<p>As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City\u2019s official high temperature today came in at 102 degrees. That breaks the old record high for the date of 100 degrees set in 1878.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Thornton, we bested Denver slightly with a high of 103 degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat has been on throughout the summer and continued today as Denver set another record high. As measured at Denver International Airport, the Mile High City\u2019s official high temperature today came in at 102 degrees. That breaks the old record high for the date of 100 degrees set in 1878. Here in Thornton, we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-high-temperature-record-for-august-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver sets high temperature record for August 3<\/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":[7],"tags":[221,574,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25773"}],"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=25773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25774,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25773\/revisions\/25774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}