{"id":44186,"date":"2021-10-12T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/photos-snowstorm-arrives-in-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:17:56","slug":"photos-snowstorm-arrives-in-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/photos-snowstorm-arrives-in-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Snowstorm arrives in Southwest Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=48b1ae3d-f304-584a-bd67-9b98364b31c8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1350\" alt=\"The West Fork of the Dolores River valley saw steady snow Tuesday morning. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The West Fork of the Dolores River valley saw steady snow Tuesday morning. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Snow and rained arrived in Dolores and Cortez this week. The storm knocked off the fall colors of mountain aspen, but what remains contrasts nicely with fresh snowfall.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for Monday and Tuesday as the second of two weather systems arrived in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 10 inches of snow is possible at 9,000 feet elevation in the northwest and southwest San Juan Mountains, the weather service said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Montezuma County continues to face a 90% chance of rain or snow Tuesday, and a 50% chance of show showers tonight before midnight. Wednesday is expected to be mostly sunny, but on Thursday, there\u2019s a 30% chance of rain or snow.<\/p>\n<p>A freeze watch remains in effect.<\/p>\n<p><!-- gallery:28178b8c-d0b4-46d6-8966-a12cf5d7b6ab --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers distracted by slushy roads, epic fall scenery in Dolores River Valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1544,44,341,28,29,1164,414],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-us-national-football-league-nfl-north-american","tag-dolores","tag-dolores-river","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-snow","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44186","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=44186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85997,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44186\/revisions\/85997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44186"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}