{"id":115233,"date":"2015-01-15T18:44:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T01:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/snowpack-lags-behind-average\/"},"modified":"2015-01-15T18:44:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T01:44:38","slug":"snowpack-lags-behind-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/snowpack-lags-behind-average\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowpack lags behind average"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c520c28e-8295-420c-b306-4f0ef33d8a71&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c520c28e-8295-420c-b306-4f0ef33d8a71&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c520c28e-8295-420c-b306-4f0ef33d8a71&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c520c28e-8295-420c-b306-4f0ef33d8a71&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=\"1150\" height=\"1725\" alt=\"Snow-covered trees near Hermosa on Tuesday morning. Despite a wet storm that moved through the area, snowpack remains below average in the region.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Snow-covered trees near Hermosa on Tuesday morning. Despite a wet storm that moved through the area, snowpack remains below average in the region.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">JERRY McBRIDE\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The mountain snowpack in Southwest Colorado remains below average after Tuesday\u2019s storm.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado SNOTEL index of the San Miguel, Dolores, Animas and San Juan River basins was at 78 percent of the median figure for Wednesday\u2019s date.<\/p>\n<p>The index is based on data from sites operated by the Natural Resources and Conservation Service, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Red Mountain Pass had the biggest snowpack in the region, at 101 percent of average snowpack for the date.<\/p>\n<p>Some others:<\/p>\n<p>Mancos, 71 percent<\/p>\n<p>Molas Lake, 78 percent<\/p>\n<p>Spud Mountain, 76 percent<\/p>\n<p>Vallecito, 93 percent<\/p>\n<p>Wolf Creek Summit, 53 percent<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s storm dropped 6 to 8 inches in many parts of La Plata County, and a foot or more at some locations in the mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite storm, mountains still catching up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[13,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-115233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115233","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=115233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115233"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=115233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}