{"id":40677,"date":"2022-05-09T19:08:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T01:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/southern-colorado-is-being-slammed-by-dust-and-wind-theyll-lessen-tuesday-but-be-back-later-this-week\/"},"modified":"2022-05-10T01:08:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T01:08:25","slug":"southern-colorado-is-being-slammed-by-dust-and-wind-theyll-lessen-tuesday-but-be-back-later-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/southern-colorado-is-being-slammed-by-dust-and-wind-theyll-lessen-tuesday-but-be-back-later-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Colorado is being slammed by dust and wind. They\u2019ll lessen Tuesday, but be back later this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b3261526-aa76-5471-8eca-0ec60a628d4d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" alt=\"Wind is blowing dust up into Southern Colorado from northwest New Mexico. Forecasters say the winds will be back later in the week. (Dan Boyce\/CPR News)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Wind is blowing dust up into Southern Colorado from northwest New Mexico. Forecasters say the winds will be back later in the week. (Dan Boyce\/CPR News)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The high winds and dusty skies seen across southern Colorado on Monday should moderate by the evening and into the next couple of days before picking up again late in the week, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Mozley, a National Weather Service meteorologist based in Pueblo, said wind gusts in the region reached speeds of more than 80 mph early Monday near the Sangre de Cristo and Wet mountain ranges. Those winds lessened later into the afternoon but were still leading to hazardous driving conditions along the southern half of the state\u2019s Interstate 25 corridor.<\/p>\n<p>As for the noticeable tan haze in the sky, Mozley said it\u2019s largely composed of dust from northwest New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s probably highly correlated to the lack of rainfall (in the region),\u201d Mozley said. \u201cEven though we did have a little bit of rain in the Pueblo area and along the I-25 corridor last week, it\u2019s been dry and it\u2019s been windy. So, that tends to suck all that moisture out of the surface and it just dries it out and makes it prone to blowing around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>April and May are typically two of Colorado\u2019s wettest months. However, April has already gone down as the driest on record in some regions, and most of Colorado remains in a state of moderate or severe drought.<\/p>\n<p>Mozley urged residents to stay vigilant in avoiding activities that could cause a spark, as the high winds exacerbate already extreme wildfire conditions.<\/p>\n<p>He added another, similar storm system is expected to pass north through the region later in the week which could bring another round of windy and dusty conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>haze is largely composed of debris from blowing in from northwest New Mexico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-40677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40677","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=40677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40677"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=40677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}