{"id":44324,"date":"2021-10-08T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rain-cold-air-expected-through-middle-of-next-week\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:18:42","slug":"rain-cold-air-expected-through-middle-of-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rain-cold-air-expected-through-middle-of-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, cold air expected through middle of next 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=0e2094d8-fd6a-4772-b3d4-a334f3384163&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1928\" height=\"1285\" alt=\"Back-to-back storms are expected to bring precipitation and cold air to the Durango area through next Wednesday. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Back-to-back storms are expected to bring precipitation and cold air to the Durango area through next Wednesday. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Two storm systems moving through Colorado will bring precipitation and an unseasonably cold wind to Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The first system blew in Friday and should leave sometime Sunday morning, said Scott Stearns, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction. A second system will arrive late Monday or early Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think most of the precipitation from that second system should be ending Wednesday morning,\u201d Stearns said.<\/p>\n<p>The storms will bring significant cold air, which will result in snow as low as 8,000 feet in elevation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe snowfall could get down that low, but keep in mind that the ground is probably going to be pretty warm this early in the season,\u201d Stearns said. \u201cThat and the high sun angle means it\u2019s probably not going to stick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-71fbb581315ac15b4cc65cab4ddcce08\"><a href=\"mailto:njohnson@durangoherald.com\">njohnson@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>possible at elevations of 8,000 feet and higher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,414],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44324","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=44324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86043,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44324\/revisions\/86043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44324"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}