{"id":21427,"date":"2025-07-15T23:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/have-monsoons-arrived-in-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:06:04","slug":"have-monsoons-arrived-in-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/have-monsoons-arrived-in-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Have monsoons arrived 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=282ba88b-acb3-5915-b69f-9d28b8fe9cbb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1323\" alt=\"Rain begins to fall in Durango on Wednesday with more expected through the week. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Rain begins to fall in Durango on Wednesday with more expected through the week. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Afternoon rainstorms set in last weekend and continued through Tuesday, bringing stormy skies and plenty of wet shoes across Durango. That followed similarly rainy weather over Fourth of July weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Gillian Felton, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, which serves Southwest Colorado, said Durango\u2019s monsoon season hasn\u2019t officially arrived yet \u2013 but it\u2019s likely coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a little bit of monsoon activity around the Fourth, but since then, we\u2019ve seen a lot of dry thunderstorms with a lot of virga precipitation \u2013 so, moisture not making it to the ground,\u201d Felton said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Felton, it\u2019s difficult to say exactly when the monsoons officially begin.<\/p>\n<p>But she said more rain is likely in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we look toward the end of this week, some of the models are suggesting we might get a push of monsoonal moisture into the region, but it looks like there\u2019s a chance that won\u2019t last very long,\u201d Felton said.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the rainy weather sticks around depends on where high pressure sets up south of Durango, Felton said.<\/p>\n<p>Based on its positioning, moisture can stream in from the Pacific or from the Baja region and move toward Southwest Colorado. According to Felton, high pressure coming from the Pacific has been \u201cmoving around a bit,\u201d causing fleeting showers followed by brief dry spells across Durango.<\/p>\n<p>Felton said Durango has received 1.5 inches of precipitation so far this month, below the 1.74-inch average at the Fort Lewis weather station since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>However, Felton said moisture levels could reach closer to average before the end of the month, with scattered rainstorms expected to continue, and possibly increase, as August approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Felton advised those planning outdoor activities in July and August, when monsoon activity is common, to monitor real-time weather reports and make safe decisions about recreating in bad weather.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-40fe2c20705a3143d59f1017c18d3212\"><a href=\"mailto:epond@durangoherald.com\">epond@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durango likely to see more spotty showers as August nears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427","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=21427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77306,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427\/revisions\/77306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21427"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}