{"id":3125,"date":"2010-12-04T02:34:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T09:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2011-11-26T03:38:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T10:38:10","slug":"november-weather-wrap-month-ends-drier-and-warmer-than-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/november-weather-wrap-month-ends-drier-and-warmer-than-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Thornton’s November weather recap – Month ends drier and warmer than normal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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November 2010 goes down in the books as drier and warmer than normal. (iStockphoto \/ johnnyscriv)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

November 2010 was most notable not for what weather condition occurred but rather for what it lacked – snow.\u00a0 Historically November is Denver’s second snowiest month but 2010 saw us receive very little of the white stuff as we start out the season far behind where we average.<\/p>\n

At the official Denver weather monitoring station at Denver International Airport a mere 1.5 inches of the white stuff was recorded.\u00a0 That is 9.2 inches below the historical November average of 10.7 inches.\u00a0 Despite that, the month fell short of the top 10 least snowiest Novembers as number 10 on that list is 1971 with 1.4 inches.\u00a0 Given that no snow was recorded in September or October, the 2010 snow season is off to a dismal start at more than 15 inches below normal.<\/p>\n

In terms of precipitation, only 0.5 inch was collected in the rain bucket – barely more than half of the normal of 0.98 inch. \u00a0While dry, it wasn’t enough to put the month into top 10 driest November status.\u00a0 Three years in Denver history have recorded only a trace of precipitation and the number 10 slot is held by 1989 when only 0.15 inch of precipitation was recorded.\u00a0 No precipitation or snowfall records were set or tied during the month.<\/p>\n

Here in Thornton we fared drier than the official Denver tallies on all fronts.\u00a0 We recorded only 1.14 inches of snow and 0.33 inch of precipitation.<\/p>\n

Temperature-wise Denver ended the month warmer than normal with an average temperature of 38.3 degrees.\u00a0 This was 0.8 degrees above the normal of 37.5 degrees.\u00a0 Temperatures ranged from a high of 77 degrees on the 6th down to a low of 4 degrees on the 25th.\u00a0 There were 24 days with low temperatures below the freezing mark which is normal.\u00a0 On only one day, the 29th, did we fail to hit a high temperature of at least freezing as the thermometer only climbed to 31 degrees that day.\u00a0 No temperature records were set or tied during the month.<\/p>\n

Overall Thornton’s average temperature for the month was cooler than Denver’s.\u00a0 The average temperature was 36.8 degrees with the warmest day hitting 78.7 degrees and the lowest temperature being 9.0 degrees.<\/p>\n

Wind is of course a fact of life on the plains and November 2010 did set a new peak wind gust for the month of 55 mph on the 16th.\u00a0 This easily broke the old record of 49 mph set in 1990.<\/p>\n

Click here to view the 2010 Thornton Climate Summary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CLIMATE REPORT\r\nNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOULDER, CO\r\n745 AM MST FRI DEC 3 2010\r\n\r\n................................... \r\n\r\n...THE DENVER CO CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 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              80   11\/08\/2006\r\n LOW              -18   11\/29\/1877\r\nHIGHEST            77   11\/06        79      -2       77  11\/05\r\nLOWEST              4   11\/25       -18      22       16  11\/16\r\nAVG. MAXIMUM     52.6              51.5     1.1     56.4\r\nAVG. MINIMUM     24.0              23.5     0.5     28.8\r\nMEAN             38.3              37.5     0.8     42.6\r\nDAYS MAX >= 90      0               0.0     0.0        0\r\nDAYS MAX = .01         6               5.6     0.4        3\r\nDAYS >= .10         2                MM      MM        3\r\nDAYS >= .50         0                MM      MM        0\r\nDAYS >= 1.00        0                MM      MM        0\r\nGREATEST\r\n 24 HR. TOTAL    0.15 11\/16 TO 11\/16         0.33 11\/14 TO 11\/15\r\n\r\nSNOWFALL (INCHES)\r\nRECORDS\r\n TOTAL           42.6  1946\r\nTOTALS            1.5               10.7\r\n\r\nDEGREE_DAYS\r\nHEATING TOTAL     793               826     -33      664\r\n SINCE 7\/1       1128              1408    -280     1479\r\nCOOLING TOTAL       0                 0       0        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              9.7\r\nRESULTANT WIND SPEED\/DIRECTION   2\/228\r\nHIGHEST WIND SPEED\/DIRECTION    45\/310    DATE  11\/16\r\nHIGHEST GUST SPEED\/DIRECTION    55\/320    DATE  11\/16\r\n\r\nSKY COVER\r\nPOSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT)   MM\r\n\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS FAIR            9\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS PC             17\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY          4\r\n\r\nAVERAGE RH (PERCENT)     51\r\n\r\nWEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH\r\nTHUNDERSTORM              0     MIXED PRECIP               0\r\nHEAVY RAIN                0     RAIN                       1\r\nLIGHT RAIN                2     FREEZING RAIN              0\r\nLT FREEZING RAIN          0     HAIL                       0\r\nHEAVY SNOW                1     SNOW                       4\r\nLIGHT SNOW                9     SLEET                      0\r\nFOG                      13     FOG W\/VIS<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
November 2010 was most notable not for what weather condition occurred but rather for what it lacked – snow.\u00a0 Historically November is Denver’s second snowiest month but 2010 saw us receive very little of the white stuff as we start out the season far behind where we average. At the official Denver weather monitoring station … Continue reading Thornton’s November weather recap – Month ends drier and warmer than normal<\/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":[104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125"}],"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=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4308,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions\/4308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}