{"id":114529,"date":"2015-02-16T19:29:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T02:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/weather-continues-to-break-records\/"},"modified":"2015-02-16T19:29:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T02:29:37","slug":"weather-continues-to-break-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/weather-continues-to-break-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather continues to break records"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kim Franchini tees off on the second hole at Conquistador Golf Course on Friday, Feb. 13.<\/span>Sam Green\/Cortez Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Friday, Feb. 13, the recorded high was 63 degrees, a temperature that beat the previous high of 62 set in 1954.<\/p>\n

But Saturday was one for the record books.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the 14th, we absolutely smashed the old record,\u201d said Jim Andrus, National Weather Service observer for Cortez.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the temperature soared to 67 degrees, smashing the 1996 record of 62.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe beat the record by a whole five degrees,\u201d Andrus said.<\/p>\n

To put things in perspective, the normal temperature for this time of year is about 40 degrees, and the record low for Feb. 14 was 7 below zero.<\/p>\n

Andrus said a dry cold front has moved in and should cool off temperatures for a couple of days. A system is expected to move in Saturday or Sunday and could give this much-needed dry area some relief.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will believe it when I measure it,\u201d Andrus said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Conquistador Golf Course in Cortez has opened. Managers said it\u2019s the earliest opening yet, and that they\u2019re even watering some of the grass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Franchini tees off on the second hole at Conquistador Golf Course on Friday, Feb. 13.Sam Green\/Cortez Journal On Friday, Feb. 13, the recorded high was 63 degrees, a temperature that beat the previous high of 62 set in 1954. But Saturday was one for the record books. \u201cOn the 14th, we absolutely smashed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-114529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114529","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=114529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114529"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=114529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}