{"id":3782,"date":"2011-07-10T04:07:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T10:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2011-07-10T04:08:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T10:08:55","slug":"monsoon-season-arrives-early-brings-heavy-rains-to-thornton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/monsoon-season-arrives-early-brings-heavy-rains-to-thornton-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon season arrives early, brings heavy rains to Thornton area"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-nC717FAgQ_k\/Thl4N32XP_I\/AAAAAAAAEsc\/3-RvfDEefVk\/s800\/2011-07-10_035954.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A common scene this past week - thunderstorms develop over the Denver area.  (Twitpic \/ CodyCrouch)\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-nC717FAgQ_k\/Thl4N32XP_I\/AAAAAAAAEsc\/3-RvfDEefVk\/s288\/2011-07-10_035954.jpg\" alt=\"A common scene this past week - thunderstorms develop over the Denver area.  (Twitpic \/ CodyCrouch)\" width=\"288\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A common scene this past week - thunderstorms develop over the Denver area.  Watch video of the recent street flooding in Thornton below.  (Twitpic \/ CodyCrouch)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>La Ni\u00f1a is winding down and normally we would expect a drier than normal monsoon.\u00a0 Mother Nature however has other plans as she not only brought the season to Thornton early, it came with a vengeance this week.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crh.noaa.gov\/images\/bou\/showimages\/enso_jul-sep_2011_cli_outlook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a presentation that just came out at the first of the month<\/a>, the National Weather Service discussed the coming monsoon.\u00a0 At that time forecasters predicted a drier and shorter than normal monsoon for the Colorado Front Range.\u00a0 Thus far it has been anything but.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Be sure to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThorntonWeather\">follow us on Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThorntonWeather\">\u2018like\u2019 us on Facebook<\/a> for all the latest weather news!<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This past week copious amounts of moisture have streamed into Colorado.\u00a0 Coupled with daytime heating leading to a good deal of atmospheric instability, thunderstorms have been a daily occurrence.\u00a0 Strong winds and heavy rain have occurred virtually daily.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past five days Denver has recorded 1.78 inches of rain at the city&#8217;s official monitoring station at Denver International Airport.\u00a0 Closer to where population actually lives even greater amounts have been seen.<\/p>\n<p>Here in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/wxraindetail.php\">Thornton we have recorded 1.98 inches of rain over the past five days<\/a>.\u00a0 Other amounts over the same period recorded at nearby stations include 1.79 inches in Arvada, 3.18 inches at Reunion in Commerce City, and 3.06 inches in north Denver.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday evening, a slow-moving thunderstorm dumped heavy rain on the southern parts of Thornton.\u00a0 Video footage from storm chaser <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tornadoeskick.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Laubach<\/a> (below) shows the end result as streets in the area of I-25 and 84th Avenue were flooded.<\/p>\n<p>Is there an end in sight?\u00a0 Not in the immediate future.\u00a0 For at least the next few days atmospheric moisture will continue to be in abundance and we will continue to see the same general pattern.\u00a0 By mid-week we may see some drying but we can&#8217;t entirely eliminate the threat of afternoon thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p>As always you can get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/forecast.php\">latest Thornton forecast here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pRxYE6U_PfQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pRxYE6U_PfQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Ni\u00f1a is winding down and normally we would expect a drier than normal monsoon.\u00a0 Mother Nature however has other plans as she not only brought the season to Thornton early, it came with a vengeance this week. In a presentation that just came out at the first of the month, the National Weather Service &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/monsoon-season-arrives-early-brings-heavy-rains-to-thornton-area\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monsoon season arrives early, brings heavy rains to Thornton area<\/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":[6,7],"tags":[46,34,527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782"}],"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=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3785,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions\/3785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}