{"id":8928,"date":"2012-09-12T17:45:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T23:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=8928"},"modified":"2012-09-12T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T23:45:25","slug":"storm-brings-much-needed-precipitation-to-colorado-front-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/storm-brings-much-needed-precipitation-to-colorado-front-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm brings much needed precipitation to Colorado Front Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following months of scorching heat and below normal precipitation, northeastern Colorado desperately needed precipitation.\u00a0 Mother Nature finally provided relief as many locations recorded more than 1&#8243; of rain over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Thornton we recorded a welcome 1.32&#8243; since yesterday.\u00a0 Of that, 1.26&#8243; was recorded since midnight today, the biggest single day precipitation event we have had since July 12, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Some other rainfall totals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Denver International Airport: 0.97&#8243;<\/li>\n<li>Denver City Park: 1.62&#8243;<\/li>\n<li>Buckley Air Force Base: 0.38&#8243;<\/li>\n<li>Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (Broomfield): 0.61&#8243;<\/li>\n<li>NCAR Table Mesa Boulder: 1.29&#8243;<\/li>\n<li>Longmont Vance Brand Airport: 0.56&#8243;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View more totals for the metro area on the map below.<\/p>\n<p>Snow was also recorded at higher elevations above 11,000 feet in the mountains southwest of Denver.\u00a0 Pikes Peak was blanketed in white and received at least a few inches.<\/p>\n<p>While the recent rain will provide some temporary relief, precipitation totals for the calendar year remain well behind normal.\u00a0 For Denver an average year brings 14.92&#8243; of liquid precipitation.\u00a0 To date 2012 has only recorded 6.46&#8243;in the rain bucket.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-3AUDaPLg4kg\/UFEd0e_alhI\/AAAAAAAAHPo\/hyoxJv5_EYY\/s800\/2012-09-12_174140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"24 hour rainfall totals for the Denver metro area from 5:30pm on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 to 5:30pm on Wednesday, September 12, 2012.\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-3AUDaPLg4kg\/UFEd0e_alhI\/AAAAAAAAHPo\/hyoxJv5_EYY\/s580\/2012-09-12_174140.jpg\" alt=\"24 hour rainfall totals for the Denver metro area from 5:30pm on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 to 5:30pm on Wednesday, September 12, 2012.\" width=\"580\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">24 hour rainfall totals for the Denver metro area from 5:30pm on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 to 5:30pm on Wednesday, September 12, 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following months of scorching heat and below normal precipitation, northeastern Colorado desperately needed precipitation.\u00a0 Mother Nature finally provided relief as many locations recorded more than 1&#8243; of rain over the past 24 hours. Here in Thornton we recorded a welcome 1.32&#8243; since yesterday.\u00a0 Of that, 1.26&#8243; was recorded since midnight today, the biggest single day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/storm-brings-much-needed-precipitation-to-colorado-front-range\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Storm brings much needed precipitation to Colorado Front Range<\/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":[441],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928"}],"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=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8929,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions\/8929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}