{"id":896,"date":"2008-12-04T06:55:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T12:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=896"},"modified":"2008-12-04T06:55:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T12:55:01","slug":"a-snowy-and-slick-commute-for-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/a-snowy-and-slick-commute-for-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"A snowy and slick commute for Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-897\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/wx35.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-897\" title=\"The scene at ThorntonWeather.com at 5:50am today.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/current1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The scene at ThorntonWeather.com at 5:50am today.  Click the image for a current weather webcam view.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/current1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/current1-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/current1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The scene at ThorntonWeather.com at 5:50am today. Click the image for a current weather webcam view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The snow arrived overnight and as of 5:00am <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/snow-totals.php\">ThorntonWeather.com had measured 1.3\u201d<\/a> and it was still coming down pretty good.\u00a0 Due to the extreme cold \u2013 17 degrees and a windchill of 5 degrees as of this writing \u2013 the roads are quite slick.\u00a0 This morning we found residential streets to be the worst of course but main arterials like 120th Ave were not in too good of shape either.\u00a0 Please allow plenty of time to get the kids to school and yourselves to work, allow plenty of distance between you and other cars and just take your time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A surge of cold air from the north is expected to intensify the snowfall in the coming hours and a bit of upslope will keep the flakes falling for most of the day.\u00a0 Accumulations though won\u2019t be all that great \u2013 look for 2 to 4 inches overall.\u00a0 Snow will taper off this evening from the north to the south and completely end in the metro area around midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Friday and this weekend are shaping up great but that could be short lived.\u00a0 We are watching a cold front coming from Montana that could bring more cold and snow toward the first part of next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The snow arrived overnight and as of 5:00am ThorntonWeather.com had measured 1.3\u201d and it was still coming down pretty good.\u00a0 Due to the extreme cold \u2013 17 degrees and a windchill of 5 degrees as of this writing \u2013 the roads are quite slick.\u00a0 This morning we found residential streets to be the worst of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/a-snowy-and-slick-commute-for-thursday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A snowy and slick commute for Thursday<\/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":[161,156,122,163,160,162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896"}],"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=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}