{"id":3713,"date":"2011-06-21T06:48:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T12:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2011-06-25T15:51:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T21:51:33","slug":"denver-sets-24-hour-precipitation-record-for-june-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-24-hour-precipitation-record-for-june-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver sets 24 hour precipitation record for June 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2840\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2840\" title=\"Rain record\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/recordrain.jpg\" alt=\"Record Rain\" width=\"304\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/recordrain.jpg 304w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/recordrain-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/recordrain-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denver easily broke the 24 hour precipitation record for June 20th.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was a wet day in Denver yesterday and the statistics bear that one out.\u00a0 The official Denver weather monitoring station at Denver International Airport recorded 1.05 inches of precipitation on June 20th.\u00a0 This easily broke the previous record for the date of 0.50 inch set in 1938.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Thornton we recorded a bit less but still a considerable amount &#8211; 0.87 inch.<\/p>\n<p>The record setting rain in Denver does once again highlight the problems with having Denver&#8217;s monitoring station at DIA used for comparison to historical records.\u00a0 The 12 mile move of the station in 1995 from its previous location has skewed Denver&#8217;s climate records.<\/p>\n<p>With the event yesterday we see that the station in Denver City Park recorded no rain at all.\u00a0 Had the National Weather Service logically choose to use this location, or the previous one at Stapleton, as the official source for Denver weather, no record would have been set.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on the problems with Denver&#8217;s climate records, see here: \u00a0<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> (Examiner.com)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a wet day in Denver yesterday and the statistics bear that one out.\u00a0 The official Denver weather monitoring station at Denver International Airport recorded 1.05 inches of precipitation on June 20th.\u00a0 This easily broke the previous record for the date of 0.50 inch set in 1938. Here in Thornton we recorded a bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-24-hour-precipitation-record-for-june-20th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver sets 24 hour precipitation record for June 20th<\/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":[517,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713"}],"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=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3714,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/3714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}