{"id":47442,"date":"2021-04-11T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/red-flag-warning-in-effect-for-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2021-04-11T23:15:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T23:15:13","slug":"red-flag-warning-in-effect-for-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/red-flag-warning-in-effect-for-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Red flag warning in effect for 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=0afc40e8-46e3-4829-813c-f82664ab509d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1542\" height=\"908\" alt=\"A red flag warning of extremely dry and windy weather conditions favorable to the spread of wildfire is in effect for most of Southwest Colorado through 8 p.m. Sunday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A red flag warning of extremely dry and windy weather conditions favorable to the spread of wildfire is in effect for most of Southwest Colorado through 8 p.m. Sunday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A red flag warning of extremely dry and windy conditions favorable to the spread of wildfires is in effect for Southwest Colorado through 8 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A red flag warning means a combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Winds from the west are expected between 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Areas covered by the red flag warning include all of La Plata, Archuleta and Hinsdale counties, and all except the northwest corner of Montezuma County.<\/p>\n<p>The red flag warning covers all of the San Juan Mountains and the Animas, Upper Dolores, and San Juan river basins.<\/p>\n<p>Weather conditions favorable to the spread of wildfire are expected for the next week in Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Periodic mountain snowfall is in the forecast from Tuesday through Saturday above 9,000 feet in elevation, but snowfall amounts are expected to be small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dry, windy weather favorable to wildfires expected all week in Four Corners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,88,84],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-weather-news","tag-wildfire"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47442","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=47442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47442"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}