{"id":3078,"date":"2010-11-06T09:11:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T15:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2010-11-06T09:11:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T15:11:22","slug":"denvers-october-2010-wraps-up-dry-and-warm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denvers-october-2010-wraps-up-dry-and-warm\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver’s October 2010 wraps up dry and warm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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October 2010 ended up drier and warmer than normal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following on what was a “top 10” warmest and driest September, October tried to follow suit but fell short of achieving record status.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the month was considerably warmer and drier than normal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In terms of temperature the month ranked as the 11th warmest fall just 0.1 degree short of top 10 status.\u00a0 The average temperature was 55.3 degrees; a considerable 4.3 degrees above normal.\u00a0 Temperatures ranged from a high of 85 degrees on the 3rd down to a low of 20 on the 28th.\u00a0 In all there were only two days when the mercury dipped to freezing or below; seven days below the normal nine we receive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thornton was quite a bit cooler overall than Denver as we had an average temperature of 52.7 degrees.\u00a0 Highs ranged from 84 degrees on the 4th down to 23.3 degrees on the 28th.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As an interesting side note, it was just last October that we had our second coldest October on record.\u00a0 The average temperature in October 2009 was a chilly 42.9 degrees and we had 17 days with temperatures at or below freezing!\u00a0<\/p>\n

We suffered through another dry month which did spark a couple of wildfires.\u00a0 A mere 0.54 inch of precipitation was recorded at the official monitoring site at Denver International Airport.\u00a0 This was just barely more than half of the normal of 0.99 inch.\u00a0 Most of the precipitation fell in the form of rain on the 12th when 0.34 inch was recorded.\u00a0 Here in Thornton we were a bit wetter having recorded 0.73 inch of precipitation during the month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the first time since 2003 no snow was recorded in Denver in October.\u00a0 This is only the 15th time since 1882 that has happened.\u00a0 On average we expect to receive 4.1 inches of the white stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

See the official statistical summary from the National Weather Service below for more details.\u00a0 Click here to view the monthly climate summary for Thornton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CLIMATE REPORT\r\nNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOULDER, CO\r\n205 PM MDT MON NOV 1 2010\r\n\r\n................................... \r\n\r\n...THE DENVER CO CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2010...\r\n\r\nCLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1971 TO 2000\r\nCLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1872 TO 2010\r\n\r\nWEATHER         OBSERVED          NORMAL  DEPART  LAST YEAR'S\r\n                 VALUE   DATE(S)  VALUE   FROM    VALUE  DATE(S)\r\n                                          NORMAL\r\n................................................................\r\nTEMPERATURE (F)\r\nRECORD\r\n HIGH              90   10\/01\/1892\r\n LOW               -2   10\/29\/1917\r\nHIGHEST            85   10\/03        90      -5       84  10\/18\r\nLOWEST             20   10\/28        -2      22       17  10\/10\r\nAVG. MAXIMUM     69.7              66.0     3.7     54.7\r\nAVG. MINIMUM     40.9              35.9     5.0     31.1\r\nMEAN             55.3              51.0     4.3     42.9\r\nDAYS MAX >= 90      0               0.0     0.0        0\r\nDAYS MAX <= 32      0               0.3    -0.3        3\r\nDAYS MIN <= 32      2               8.6    -6.6       17\r\nDAYS MIN <= 0       0               0.0     0.0        0<\/pre>\n
PRECIPITATION (INCHES) \r\nRECORD\r\n  MAXIMUM         4.17   1969  \r\n  MINIMUM            T   1934\r\nTOTALS           0.54              0.99   -0.45     1.36\r\nDAILY AVG.       0.02              0.03   -0.01     0.04\r\nDAYS >= .01         4               5.3    -1.3        8\r\nDAYS >= .10         2                MM      MM        5\r\nDAYS >= .50         0                MM      MM        0\r\nDAYS >= 1.00        0                MM      MM        0\r\nGREATEST\r\n 24 HR. TOTAL    0.34   10\/12 TO 10\/12     0.39  10\/20 TO 10\/21       \r\n\r\nSNOWFALL (INCHES)\r\nRECORDS\r\n TOTAL           31.2   1969\r\nTOTALS            0.0               4.1    -4.1       17.2             \r\n\r\nDEGREE_DAYS\r\nHEATING TOTAL     300               436    -136      676\r\n SINCE 7\/1        335               582    -247      815\r\nCOOLING TOTAL       8                 0       8        0\r\n SINCE 1\/1        870               696     174      533              \r\n\r\nFREEZE DATES\r\nRECORD\r\n EARLIEST     09\/08\/1962\r\n LATEST       06\/08\/2007\r\nEARLIEST                        10\/07\r\nLATEST                          05\/05\r\n.................................................................\r\n\r\nWIND (MPH)\r\nAVERAGE WIND SPEED              9.1               9.6\r\nRESULTANT WIND SPEED\/DIRECTION   3\/231            MM\r\nHIGHEST WIND SPEED\/DIRECTION    41\/350  10\/25    37\/350  10\/29\/09\r\nHIGHEST GUST SPEED\/DIRECTION    51\/350  10\/25    54\/200  10\/05\/09\r\n\r\nSKY COVER\r\nPOSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT)   MM                                      \r\n\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS FAIR            9\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS PC             22\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY          0\r\n\r\nAVERAGE RH (PERCENT)     44\r\n\r\nWEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH\r\nTHUNDERSTORM              4     MIXED PRECIP               0\r\nHEAVY RAIN                0     RAIN                       3\r\nLIGHT RAIN                5     FREEZING RAIN              0\r\nLT FREEZING RAIN          0     HAIL                       0\r\nHEAVY SNOW                0     SNOW                       0\r\nLIGHT SNOW                0     SLEET                      0\r\nFOG                       2     FOG W\/VIS <= 1\/4 MILE      1\r\nHAZE                      7                                           \r\n\r\n-  INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.\r\nR  INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.\r\nMM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.\r\nT  INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Following on what was a “top 10” warmest and driest September, October tried to follow suit but fell short of achieving record status.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the month was considerably warmer and drier than normal.\u00a0 In terms of temperature the month ranked as the 11th warmest fall just 0.1 degree short of top 10 status.\u00a0 The average … Continue reading Denver’s October 2010 wraps up dry and warm<\/span> →<\/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":[12,7],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078"}],"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=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3084,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}