{"id":2899,"date":"2010-08-17T17:41:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T23:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2010-08-17T17:41:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T23:41:05","slug":"severe-weather-visits-thornton-calmer-weather-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/severe-weather-visits-thornton-calmer-weather-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe weather visits Thornton; calmer weather forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Thunderstorm over Thornton\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_qM6V6-HRzM0\/TGsb5ZUt-KI\/AAAAAAAADxo\/1mEVyj-mJPo\/s288\/002.jpg\" alt=\"This storm cell over north Thornton on Sunday, August 15, 2010 was beautiful as it was lit by the setting sun.  See more images in the slideshow below.\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This storm cell over north Thornton on Sunday, August 15, 2010 was beautiful as it was lit by the setting sun. See more images in the slideshow below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the last two days, Thornton has seen its share of severe weather.\u00a0 Thunderstorms on Sunday and Monday afternoons provided excitement but calmer weather is forecasted.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, thunderstorms boomed over the northern part of town just as the sun was setting.\u00a0 They provided a fantastic light show as the setting sun illuminated the thunder clouds in orange and lightning provided the flash.\u00a0 These storms didn&#8217;t produce much within Thornton but further east they produced two tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p>Monday the main event struck the northern half of the city.\u00a0 Around 5:00pm dark, ominous clouds arrived with a green cast that warned severe weather was coming.\u00a0 An astounding 0.53 inch of rain was recorded at ThorntonWeather.com in a mere 25 minutes as it dumped on the area.\u00a0 Some minor street flooding was reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Don&#8217;t miss: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/weather-in-denver\/tornadoes-and-heavy-rain-unleashed-on-northeastern-colorado\"><strong>While Thornton escaped with rain, some areas had tornadoes.\u00a0 Check out the amazing photo and videos on the Denver Weather Examiner.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The extended forecast calls for drier weather for the next few days.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/wx2.php\">Be sure to check our forecast for all the latest.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;captions=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Ftonyhake%2Falbumid%2F5506525416879964625%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCMWenIHx4Ov84QE%26hl%3Den_US\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;captions=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Ftonyhake%2Falbumid%2F5506525416879964625%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCMWenIHx4Ov84QE%26hl%3Den_US\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two days, Thornton has seen its share of severe weather.\u00a0 Thunderstorms on Sunday and Monday afternoons provided excitement but calmer weather is forecasted. On Sunday, thunderstorms boomed over the northern part of town just as the sun was setting.\u00a0 They provided a fantastic light show as the setting sun illuminated the thunder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/severe-weather-visits-thornton-calmer-weather-forecast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Severe weather visits Thornton; calmer weather forecast<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[732,260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899"}],"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=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2900,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}