{"id":26308,"date":"2024-08-03T22:27:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T04:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-saw-nearly-an-extra-inch-of-rain-this-july-compared-with-july-2023\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:37:41","slug":"cortez-saw-nearly-an-extra-inch-of-rain-this-july-compared-with-july-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-saw-nearly-an-extra-inch-of-rain-this-july-compared-with-july-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez saw nearly an extra inch of rain this July compared with July 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2ee4c963-94d4-5a9c-a750-57d198ad1818&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2667\" alt=\"Here is a view of Cortez from U.S. Highway 160. (Cameryn Cass)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Here is a view of Cortez from U.S. Highway 160. (Cameryn Cass)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cortez received 1.01 inches of precipitation in July, which is nearly an inch more than the 0.11 inches seen last July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly did much better than last July,\u201d said Jim Andrus, a Cortez weather spotter for the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this year\u2019s number is 81% of the 1.25 inches that were expected, based on the 30-year average for the month.<\/p>\n<p>The weather this year has been very erratic, Andrus said.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the city received 101% of normal precipitation for the month, 49% for April, 5% for May and 486% for June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve gotten enough precipitation, especially thanks to June, that Montezuma County is no longer in any form of drought. We are drought free for the moment,\u201d Andrus said.<\/p>\n<p>The year-to-date precipitation \u2013 6.48 inches \u2013 is 105% above where it normally sits, at 6.15 inches.<\/p>\n<p>At this time last year, the year-to-date precipitation reached 9.46 inches, 154% more than normal, even with the lack of rain in July 2023.<\/p>\n<p>This past month was consistently warm, though there was no record high or low temperatures. On July 26, it reached 97 degrees, which tied a previous daily record.<\/p>\n<p>For the next 30 days, there\u2019s a high probability temperatures will be above normal. At the same time, there\u2019s equal chance for above or below what\u2019s considered normal precipitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weather has been so crazy it almost looks like a dice game. Roll the dice and see what comes up: Dry or wet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next 90 days, higher than normal temperatures are expected. And there\u2019s a good chance that precipitation will be below normal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat, we certainly don\u2019t want to see. It means higher fire danger and stress on farmers raising crops and on the ranchers trying to keep their herds watered,\u201d Andrus said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the city got more rain this July, it was still below the monthly average <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,29,414,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-26308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-weather","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26308","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=26308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79309,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26308\/revisions\/79309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26308"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=26308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}