{"id":3135,"date":"2010-12-09T15:53:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T22:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2010-12-09T15:57:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T22:57:18","slug":"lenticular-clouds-appear-over-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/lenticular-clouds-appear-over-denver\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenticular clouds appear over Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/weather-in-denver\/spectacular-lenticular-clouds-form-over-denver-colorado-picture\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"These stacked lenticular clouds hovered over Denver on the evening of December 8th. View more photos in the slideshow by clicking on the image. Photo: Alycia Gilliland\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_qM6V6-HRzM0\/TQFcbTAiQXI\/AAAAAAAAD-I\/dGI5v5ADOWw\/s800\/2010-12-09_154628.jpg\" alt=\"These stacked lenticular clouds hovered over Denver on the evening of December 8th. View more photos in the slideshow by clicking on the image. Photo: Alycia Gilliland\" width=\"225\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These stacked lenticular clouds hovered over Denver on the evening of December 8th. View more photos in the slideshow by clicking on the image. Photo: Alycia Gilliland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colorado is home to many weather phenomena which is certainly part of its appeal.\u00a0 Our topography and geographic location allow us to experience a true four seasons and every type of weather.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday if you turned your eyes skyward you were treated to an amazing display of lenticular clouds, an unusual formation but one for which Colorado is a prime viewing spot.<\/p>\n<p>Storm chaser and meteorology student Alycia Gilliland has captured some stunning photos in recent months of the sky and yesterday\u2019s display provided another opportunity.\u00a0 As the sun began its decent late yesterday afternoon, Gilliland turned her camera skyward to capture beautiful images of \u201cstacked\u201d lenticulars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to the right to view a slideshow of Gilliland&#8217;s photos.\u00a0 You can learn more about lenticular clouds in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/weather-in-denver\/storm-chaser-student-captures-amazing-images-of-lenticular-clouds-over-denver\">our story on the Denver Weather Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado is home to many weather phenomena which is certainly part of its appeal.\u00a0 Our topography and geographic location allow us to experience a true four seasons and every type of weather.\u00a0 Yesterday if you turned your eyes skyward you were treated to an amazing display of lenticular clouds, an unusual formation but one for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/lenticular-clouds-appear-over-denver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lenticular clouds appear over Denver<\/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":[414,156,461,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135"}],"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=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}