{"id":27948,"date":"2024-04-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/weekend-rains-to-wash-into-breezy-sunny-conditions-next-week-in-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:16:45","slug":"weekend-rains-to-wash-into-breezy-sunny-conditions-next-week-in-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/weekend-rains-to-wash-into-breezy-sunny-conditions-next-week-in-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend rains to wash into breezy, sunny conditions next week 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=972d33d4-c69c-5577-b41e-fc8b41ea8a82&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1010\" alt=\"A spring weather system moved into the Durango area on Tuesday, bringing snow to higher elevations and rain to the Animas Valley. The National Weather Service is forecasting a partly sunny but windy day Wednesday, with gusts as high as 40 mph. The high temperature will be in the mid-50s. The next chance for rain in Durango comes Thursday night into Friday. Sun and temperatures in the mid-60s are forecast for Saturday and Sunday. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A spring weather system moved into the Durango area on Tuesday, bringing snow to higher elevations and rain to the Animas Valley. The National Weather Service is forecasting a partly sunny but windy day Wednesday, with gusts as high as 40 mph. The high temperature will be in the mid-50s. The next chance for rain in Durango comes Thursday night into Friday. Sun and temperatures in the mid-60s are forecast for Saturday and Sunday. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Despite weekend rain and snow flurries, Monday through most of next week has a pretty dry forecast.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service was forecasting snow showers Friday evening and early Saturday for some parts of Southwest Colorado. Rains could follow during the day Saturday. But no significant buildup of snow was expected.<\/p>\n<p>Weather conditions are expected to be mostly sunny, maybe breezy in the afternoons next week, and very dry without a hint of precipitation, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Wind gusts could reach 25 mph to 30 mph every day next week, but that\u2019s about as exciting as the weather is going to be.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Sanders, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, said the predicted dry spell after weekend storms is typical of late April weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTypically, we\u2019ll have systems move through and usually a high pressure will build in behind it and that causes sinking motion, drying air masses,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why you sort of have these periods of wet and cool versus warm and dry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said from Durango 46 miles to Cortez, temperatures are forecast to be in the upper 60s to mid-70s.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders said there are chances of other systems and precipitation moving into Southwest Colorado next week, but northern Colorado has the best chances for moisture at this time and Durango is facing dry weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of those systems can drop further south next week, then the chances of precipitation will work its way into portions of southern Colorado,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026 But for now, dry, near-average temperatures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-d23b4e12b47e72790d33923572b9b0ab\"><a href=\"mailto:cburney@durangoherald.com\">cburney@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forecast following chance of snow flurries: \u2018Dry\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[950,28,1623,1164,414],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-27948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-durango","tag-headlines","tag-rain","tag-snow","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948","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=27948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80250,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948\/revisions\/80250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27948"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=27948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}