{"id":3788,"date":"2011-07-14T12:53:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T18:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2011-07-14T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T19:00:27","slug":"denver-sets-24-hour-precipitation-record-for-july-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-24-hour-precipitation-record-for-july-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver sets 24 hour precipitation record for July 13; Closes in on top 10 wettest Julys"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2840\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2840\" title=\"Rain record\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/recordrain-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Record Rain\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/recordrain-300x197.jpg 300w, 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.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denver easily broke the 24 hour precipitation record for July 13th.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is readily apparent that July has thus far been a wet month given that we have seen eight straight days of thunderstorms.\u00a0 Yesterday the storms set a record for precipitation and Denver is on pace to make the month one of the wettest Julys on record.<\/p>\n<p>Out at Denver International Airport yesterday, 1.03\u201d of precipitation was recorded.\u00a0 This set the record for the date easily besting the old record of 0.45\u201d set in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Thornton we recorded 0.45\u201d yesterday so a good bit less than out at the airport but still a decent shot of precipitation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Why are we so wet? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/video.php?v=2254420364688\">Check out the video we posted to Facebook for more information<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This brings Denver\u2019s official total to 3.19\u201d for the month so far. Average for the entire month of July is 2.16\u201d so we are far ahead of that.<\/p>\n<p>Number 10 on the \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/noaa\/07top10.php\">top 10 wettest Julys<\/a>\u2019 occurred in 1985 with 3.71\u201d.\u00a0 Given the fact that the forecast continues to contain daily thunderstorms for the foreseeable future, there is a good chance we will exceed that before the month is over.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton is ahead of the game in comparison to DIA as we have recorded 4.52\u201d so far this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is readily apparent that July has thus far been a wet month given that we have seen eight straight days of thunderstorms.\u00a0 Yesterday the storms set a record for precipitation and Denver is on pace to make the month one of the wettest Julys on record. Out at Denver International Airport yesterday, 1.03\u201d of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denver-sets-24-hour-precipitation-record-for-july-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver sets 24 hour precipitation record for July 13; Closes in on top 10 wettest Julys<\/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":[34,517,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788"}],"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=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3791,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions\/3791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}