{"id":48281,"date":"2021-02-28T22:50:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T05:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/does-the-weeks-warming-trend-spell-the-end-of-winter\/"},"modified":"2021-03-01T05:50:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T05:50:04","slug":"does-the-weeks-warming-trend-spell-the-end-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/does-the-weeks-warming-trend-spell-the-end-of-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the week\u2019s warming trend spell the end of winter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=677d0864-1fb6-4745-abd8-d71f6d8e7f7c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The National Weather Service\u2019s extended forecast for Southwest Colorado has temperatures potentially reaching highs in the mid-50s by Friday, but fans of snow shouldn\u2019t worry \u2013 the warming trend may only be temporary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just getting into a pattern,\u201d said Kris Sanders, senior meteorologist with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/gjt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NWS in Grand Junction<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a little above normal for temperatures. We\u2019re basically looking at a ridge of high pressure that is going to set up over the western United States and sort of allow the gulf air to get up here \u2013 some of the tropical air mass, I guess you could say, or just much warmer temperatures through the week and into the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not to say that winter is over, Sanders said. It\u2019s just a break.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the next weather system, which may bring a storm during the next week, will push the high pressure further south and east, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast predicts mostly sunny skies Monday and Tuesday in Cortez, with a slight chance of showers on Wednesday and Thursday. Then, it\u2019s back to sunny skies through Sunday, with daytime high temperatures in the lower 50s, and overnight lows around freezing.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ngonzales@durangoherald.com\">ngonzales@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this is just a break, says meteorologist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,414],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48281","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=48281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48281"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}