{"id":22396,"date":"2025-05-05T20:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T02:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/snowfall-expected-in-high-elevations-of-san-juan-mountains\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:13:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:13:48","slug":"snowfall-expected-in-high-elevations-of-san-juan-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/snowfall-expected-in-high-elevations-of-san-juan-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowfall expected in high elevations of San Juan Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d1ea1be4-afce-5e33-ad00-44ac41d39d26&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"354\" height=\"274\" alt=\"The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory for Southwest Colorado, effective until 6 a.m. Tuesday, The purple areas are part of the winter weather advisory, and pink represents winter storm warnings. The khaki color covering most of the map is for a hazardous weather outlook.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory for Southwest Colorado, effective until 6 a.m. Tuesday, The purple areas are part of the winter weather advisory, and pink represents winter storm warnings. The khaki color covering most of the map is for a hazardous weather outlook.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service out of Grand Junction issued a winter weather advisory on Monday for snowfall expected in the San Juan Mountains above 9,500 feet.<\/p>\n<p>The Northwest and Southwest San Juans are expected to get up to 4 inches of snow, it said. The advisory is in effect until Tuesday at 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Renwick, a National Weather Service forecaster, said a winter storm in May \u201calmost always happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hate it,\u201d he said, laughing.<\/p>\n<p>Renwick said the storm is \u201cdoing exactly what we expected it to,\u201d and that budding plants in Cortez and places under 9,500 feet of elevation aren\u2019t threatened by it.<\/p>\n<p>And although wintry weather isn\u2019t totally well-received this late in the year, Renwick said we certainly need the precipitation and that, since it\u2019s been so dry, mountain pass roads will, at worst, be wet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s in effect until tomorrow morning for places above 9,500 feet in elevation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,1309],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-san-juan-mountains"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22396","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=22396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77693,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22396\/revisions\/77693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22396"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}