{"id":476,"date":"2008-09-22T07:06:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T13:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2008-10-01T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T14:47:08","slug":"first-day-of-fall-brings-summer-like-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/first-day-of-fall-brings-summer-like-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"First day of fall brings summer-like weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-477\" title=\"September 22 marks the first day of fall.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/fall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/fall1.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/fall1-150x108.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Today at 9:44am marks the Autumn Equinox &#8211; the first day of fall.\u00a0 The days are definitely getting shorter and we are seeing less and less daylight.\u00a0 The spring and autumn equinox mark the two days of the year\u00a0 when the center of the Sun will spend a nearly equal amount of time above and below the horizon at every location on Earth and night and day will be of nearly the same length.\u00a0 In short, there is 12 hours between sunrise and sunset.\u00a0 Here along the Front Range we are pleased to see summer-like weather today and for most of the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A dry and stable weather pattern will settle in over much of the state and with it usher in well above normal temperatures.\u00a0 The normal high temperature for this time of year is 75 degrees and on Monday we will be a good bit above that as we reach 85.\u00a0 There will be a slight chance for thunderstorms late today but those will be few and far between.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the week progresses we will continue to see above normal temperatures with 80 on Tuesday, 82 on Wednesday, 85 on Thursday and 84 on Friday.\u00a0 Enjoy it while you can &#8211; the snow could be flying any day now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 9:44am marks the Autumn Equinox &#8211; the first day of fall.\u00a0 The days are definitely getting shorter and we are seeing less and less daylight.\u00a0 The spring and autumn equinox mark the two days of the year\u00a0 when the center of the Sun will spend a nearly equal amount of time above and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/first-day-of-fall-brings-summer-like-weather\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First day of fall brings summer-like weather<\/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":[59,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}