{"id":100605,"date":"2018-04-05T09:34:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pacific-storm-shows-potential-for-heavy-rain-in-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T09:34:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:34:17","slug":"pacific-storm-shows-potential-for-heavy-rain-in-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pacific-storm-shows-potential-for-heavy-rain-in-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific storm shows potential for heavy rain in Southwest Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=486a06b5-9576-4a75-ad61-d8ffba5a46e6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=486a06b5-9576-4a75-ad61-d8ffba5a46e6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=486a06b5-9576-4a75-ad61-d8ffba5a46e6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=486a06b5-9576-4a75-ad61-d8ffba5a46e6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1933\" height=\"1236\" alt=\"The Journal file&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A moisture-laden Pacific storm brings the potential for heavy rain this weekend.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Journal file&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A moisture-laden Pacific storm brings the potential for heavy rain this weekend.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A warm and wet Pacific storm system will bring the potential for heavy rain in Montezuma County and snow at higher elevations this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Very warm and breezy to windy conditions are expected Saturday afternoon, followed by significant moisture Saturday evening through Sunday. Snow levels will start off about 12,000 feet through Saturday night and drop to 8,000 feet in northwest Colorado by Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The moisture-laden system carries the potential for heavy rain in the valleys and foothills, with snowfall above 10,000 to 12,000 feet. Localized flooding may occur in some areas, the weather service said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSnowfall amounts and snow levels will be tricky to predict,\u201d the weather service said.<\/p>\n<p>In Montezuma County today, the high temperature is expected to reach 60 degrees, with 5-10 mph winds in the afternoon. Overnight, expect mostly cloudy skies and a low of 40 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s high is expected to be near 62, with a 20 percent chance of isolated showers before noon and an overnight low of 40.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday afternoon, as the Pacific storm approaches Southwest Colorado, there\u2019s a light chance of showers between noon and 3 p.m., followed by a slight chance of showers after 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The potential for showers increases to 70 percent on Saturday night and to 40 percent on Sunday morning. Sunny skies are expected Monday through Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekend storm \u2018tricky to predict,\u2019 weather service says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[414,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-100605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-weather","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100605"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=100605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}