{"id":110934,"date":"2015-07-20T03:31:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T09:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/el-nino-ends-dry-run-in-la-plata-county\/"},"modified":"2015-07-20T03:31:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T09:31:57","slug":"el-nino-ends-dry-run-in-la-plata-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/el-nino-ends-dry-run-in-la-plata-county\/","title":{"rendered":"El Ni\u00f1o ends dry run in La Plata County"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1f36d93c-38ce-4d02-9e2e-e5c8134ce3ec&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1f36d93c-38ce-4d02-9e2e-e5c8134ce3ec&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1f36d93c-38ce-4d02-9e2e-e5c8134ce3ec&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1f36d93c-38ce-4d02-9e2e-e5c8134ce3ec&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=\"2000\" height=\"1054\" alt=\"\u201cThis country hasn\u2019t looked this green this time of year in easily two years, if not longer,\u201d said Sterling Moss, district conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service office in Durango.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">\u201cThis country hasn\u2019t looked this green this time of year in easily two years, if not longer,\u201d said Sterling Moss, district conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service office in Durango.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Shaun Stanley\/Durango Herald file photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Higher-than-average precipitation in the region could continue into the winter if El Ni\u00f1o patterns persist, said Jim Pringle, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks highly likely La Plata County should stay out of any drought classification,\u201d Pringle said.<\/p>\n<p>The official drought designation for the Durango area ended June 16. But it has persisted for the southern portion of La Plata County, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the county was completely drought-free was January 2012. There was also a brief reprieve from drought for most of the county from November 2013 through January 2014, according to the monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the weather service\u2019s Climate Prediction Center has parts of Utah leaving the drought behind, too, and fall rain is expected to improve conditions in Arizona and areas of Nevada and California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis country hasn\u2019t looked this green this time of year in easily two years, if not longer,\u201d said Sterling Moss, district conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service office in Durango.Shaun Stanley\/Durango Herald file photo Higher-than-average precipitation in the region could continue into the winter if El Ni\u00f1o patterns persist, said Jim Pringle, meteorologist with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[13,414],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-110934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110934","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=110934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110934"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=110934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}