{"id":996,"date":"2008-12-15T08:04:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T15:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2008-12-15T08:04:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T15:04:48","slug":"dangerously-cold-temperatures-set-records-in-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/dangerously-cold-temperatures-set-records-in-denver\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerously cold temperatures set records in Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills have invaded the Front Range.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you love the cold you must be in heaven this morning.\u00a0 We are awakening to sub-zero temperatures that have now set records for two days in a row.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last night at 6:35pm the temperature at Denver International Airport reached a frigid -18 degrees.\u00a0 This breaks the 107 year old record of -14 degrees for December 14th set way back in 1901.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This morning the mercury dropped a bit further to -19 degrees at 2:31am.\u00a0 That absolutely smashed the previous record low temperature for December 15th of -6 set in 1951.<\/p>\n

Here in Thornton, ThorntonWeather.com also set records for low temperatures<\/a> since we first went online in October 2006.\u00a0 At 6:06am this morning the mercury was at a mere -14 degrees thus breaking our previous all-time cold temperature record of -13.3 degrees set on February 2, 2007.\u00a0 At 4:08am we recorded a wind chill of -25.3, an all time record for us as well.\u00a0 Certainly our record keeping hasn’t been going on as long as the official Denver ones but it is still pretty neat to see.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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At 7:00am, stations on the Rocky Mountain Weather Network were recording temperatures well into the negative teens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As dawn approached, our temperature map from the Rocky Mountain Weather Network<\/a> showed many stations across the Front Range reporting temps in the negative teens.\u00a0 With daybreak, we won’t see much of a warm up either\u00a0 as we will only reach a high of 16 degrees today.\u00a0\u00a0 Denver’s official record low maximum for this date set back in 1914 is 19 degrees so there is a pretty good chance that will be a third record set.\u00a0 Tonight we are expecting a touch of snow, maybe an inch is about it.<\/p>\n

When will the cold end?\u00a0 Not for the foreseeable future unfortunately.\u00a0 Long range forecasts going out to next Sunday<\/a> do not show even one day with temperatures above freezing and there is a slight chance of snow almost every day.<\/p>\n

This severe cold almost assures rough travel conditions as the\u00a0sun isn’t helping to melt the lingering snow.\u00a0\u00a0Please be safe out there and allow plenty of time to arrive at your destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you love the cold you must be in heaven this morning.\u00a0 We are awakening to sub-zero temperatures that have now set records for two days in a row.\u00a0 Last night at 6:35pm the temperature at Denver International Airport reached a frigid -18 degrees.\u00a0 This breaks the 107 year old record of -14 degrees for … Continue reading Dangerously cold temperatures set records in Denver<\/span> →<\/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":[184,186,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996"}],"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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}