{"id":43005,"date":"2021-12-28T23:09:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T06:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/how-did-the-christmas-storm-stack-up-in-history\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:11:09","slug":"how-did-the-christmas-storm-stack-up-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/how-did-the-christmas-storm-stack-up-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"How did the Christmas storm  stack up in history?"},"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=15881401-c6b1-40fb-b538-67f81d734705&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1553\" height=\"2400\" alt=\"Looks like Southwest Coloradans will be able to make Christmas angels with the kids. A storm expected to leave 10 inches in the San Juan Mountains and 2 to 4 inches in Durango, Cortez and lower elevations is expected to hit the evening and night of Christmas Eve with the heaviest snow expected to come early Christmas Day.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Looks like Southwest Coloradans will be able to make Christmas angels with the kids. A storm expected to leave 10 inches in the San Juan Mountains and 2 to 4 inches in Durango, Cortez and lower elevations is expected to hit the evening and night of Christmas Eve with the heaviest snow expected to come early Christmas Day.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>On the heels of a Christmas storm, here\u2019s a look back on local Christmas Eve and Christmas Day weather records measured by the U.S. National Weather Service in Grand Junction.<\/p>\n<p>As of 5 p.m. Friday in Cortez, the high was 43\u2109, and the recorded low was 36\u2109. There were 0.68 inches of precipitation recorded, bringing the monthly total to 1.92 inches and the year\u2019s total to 11.54 inches, according to the U.S. National Weather Service<\/p>\n<p>As of 5 p.m. Friday in Durango, the high was 37\u2109, and the recorded low was 32\u2109. There were 0.93 inches of precipitation recorded, bringing the monthly total to 2.06 inches and the year\u2019s total to 12.79 inches, according to the U.S. National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Top five warmest temperatures recorded on Christmas Day in Cortez<\/div>\n<p>1. In 1989, there was a high of 60\u2109.<\/p>\n<p>2. In 2005, there was a high of 58\u2109.<\/p>\n<p>3. In 1955, there was a high of 57\u2109.<\/p>\n<p>4. In 1971, 1950 and 1946, the highs were 53\u2109.<\/p>\n<p>5. In 2016, 1980, and 1969 the highs were 52\u2109.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Top five coldest temperatures recorded on Christmas Day in Cortez<\/div>\n<p>1. In 1990, the low was -15\u2109.<\/p>\n<p>2. In 1974 and 1932, the lows were -10\u2109.<\/p>\n<p>3. In 1962, the low was -8\u2109.<\/p>\n<p>4. In 1992, the low was -4\u2109.<\/p>\n<p>5. In 2009 and 1913, the lows were -3\u2109.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Christmas Day in Cortez<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Christmas Eve in Cortez<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Christmas Day in Durango<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Christmas Eve in Durango<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>warmest, coldest, wettest and snowiest Christmases in Cortez and Durango as recorded by the National Weather Service <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[755,28,167,29,414,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-43005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-christmas","tag-headlines","tag-local-news-lead","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\/43005","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=43005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85537,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43005\/revisions\/85537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43005"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=43005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}