{"id":2983,"date":"2010-09-19T18:01:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2010-09-19T18:01:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T00:01:55","slug":"denver-smashes-record-high-temperature-as-96-degrees-hits-the-mile-high-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-smashes-record-high-temperature-as-96-degrees-hits-the-mile-high-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver smashes record high temperature as  96 degrees hits the Mile High City"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2847\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2847 \" title=\"Record High Temperature\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/record-temperatures.jpg\" alt=\"Denver recorded a high temperature today of 96 degrees shattering the old record high for the date of 93.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/record-temperatures.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/record-temperatures-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denver recorded a high temperature today of 96 degrees shattering the old record high for the date of 93.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Denver is closing out summer in sizzling fashion.\u00a0 With only three days left in summer the Mile High City shattered the record high temperature for the date and may set another one on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Today at 2:32pm the temperature at Denver International Airport reached a scorching 96 degrees.\u00a0 This smashes the old record of 93 degrees set 30 years ago in 1980.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 96 degree mark today is also the highest temperature ever recorded in Denver this late in the year.\u00a0 Previously 96 degrees was recorded on September 13, 1990 and in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>Mercifully here in Thornton we weren&#8217;t quite as warm.\u00a0 We recorded a high of 93.6 degrees at 3:20pm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t miss: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/weather-in-denver\/do-denver-weather-and-climate-records-have-an-asterisk-attached\">Do Denver weather and climate records have an asterisk attached?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The temperature today was not a record high for the month of September however.\u00a0 That mark would be 97 degrees set on the 1st of the month in 1995, the 4th in 1995 and the 5th in 1899.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More heat is on tap for tomorrow as Denver will approach the 90 degree mark.\u00a0 The record high for September 20th is\u00a0 92 degrees set in 1956.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the heat and lack of humidity also comes fire danger.\u00a0 A Red Flag Warming will go into effect on Monday from noon until 9:00pm.\u00a0 We have seen how dangerously dry the weather has been with the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/weather-in-denver\/hot-shots-best-photos-of-the-fourmile-canyon-fire-and-the-reservoir-road-fire\">Fourmile Canyon Fire and the Reservoir Road Fire<\/a> in the last few weeks.\u00a0 Please be careful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t miss:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/weather-in-denver\/do-denver-weather-and-climate-records-have-an-asterisk-attached\">Do Denver weather and climate records have an asterisk attached?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/weather-in-denver\/data-shows-denver-weather-records-skewed-by-move-to-dia\">Data shows Denver weather records skewed by move to DIA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/weather-in-denver\/does-it-matter-if-denver-weather-and-climate-records-are-skewed-1\">Does it matter if Denver weather and climate records are skewed?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver is closing out summer in sizzling fashion.\u00a0 With only three days left in summer the Mile High City shattered the record high temperature for the date and may set another one on Monday. Today at 2:32pm the temperature at Denver International Airport reached a scorching 96 degrees.\u00a0 This smashes the old record of 93 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-smashes-record-high-temperature-as-96-degrees-hits-the-mile-high-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver smashes record high temperature as  96 degrees hits the Mile High City<\/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":[221,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983"}],"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=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}