{"id":4354,"date":"2011-12-03T13:58:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T20:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2011-12-03T14:24:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T21:24:55","slug":"second-snow-storm-in-three-days-hits-thornton-third-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/second-snow-storm-in-three-days-hits-thornton-third-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Second snowstorm in three days hits Thornton, third round on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-X7G8QSBboJw\/TtqND7__0mI\/AAAAAAAAFSM\/6jbvLYNPfRw\/s800\/335802_317109728317393_206328379395529_1225278_591700361_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A view of the Flatirons near Boulder on December 3, 2011 following the second snowstorm in three days. (National Weather Service)\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-X7G8QSBboJw\/TtqND7__0mI\/AAAAAAAAFSM\/6jbvLYNPfRw\/s288\/335802_317109728317393_206328379395529_1225278_591700361_o.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the Flatirons near Boulder on December 3, 2011 following the second snowstorm in three days. (National Weather Service)\" width=\"288\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Flatirons near Boulder on December 3, 2011 following the second snowstorm in three days. (National Weather Service)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The meteorological winter starts on December 1 and Old Man Winter is making sure we know he is around.\u00a0 Two snowstorms have hit Thornton in a three day span and more snow is on the way.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday the first storm brought 5.1 inches to Thornton.\u00a0 Denver officially recorded 5.7 inches at Denver International Airport (DIA).<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before midnight last night, the snow began falling again and continued through noon.\u00a0 Here in Thornton we recorded 4.9 inches with the latest system.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Remember, when the snow starts flying, stay up to date with ThorntonWeather.com:\u00a0\u2018Like\u2019 us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThorntonWeather\">Facebook<\/a>, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThorntonWeather\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and add us to your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102594403520791765288\">Google+<\/a>\u00a0circles<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is interesting to note that this brings our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/snow-totals.php\">seasonal snowfall total to 24.5 inches<\/a>.\u00a0 For comparison, we recorded a dismal 21.2 inches during all of the last season!\u00a0 In an average season, December received 61.7 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another storm system is on its way and is expected to arrive tomorrow evening.\u00a0 Right now it isn&#8217;t look near as impressive as the last two but Thornton may see another inch or two out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Over the longer term, colder than normal temperatures are expected to last through this week.\u00a0 The first half should be dry but Thursday night into Friday we may see snow again.\u00a0 Long range models looking even further ahead predict colder than normal temperatures to last through the first half of the month.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/forecast.php\">Get the latest Thornton weather forecast<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/climate.php\">Long range climate forecasts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below is time lapse video from our webcams capturing last night&#8217;s storm.\u00a0 Each take 14 hours and compress them into 30 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"407\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" 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\/nEvdsjTFLI0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"600\" height=\"407\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nEvdsjTFLI0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"407\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" 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\/AkM_1eruAHI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"600\" height=\"407\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AkM_1eruAHI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meteorological winter starts on December 1 and Old Man Winter is making sure we know he is around.\u00a0 Two snowstorms have hit Thornton in a three day span and more snow is on the way. On Thursday the first storm brought 5.1 inches to Thornton.\u00a0 Denver officially recorded 5.7 inches at Denver International Airport &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/second-snow-storm-in-three-days-hits-thornton-third-on-the-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Second snowstorm in three days hits Thornton, third round on the way<\/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":[156,323,482],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354"}],"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=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4359,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions\/4359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}