{"id":49144,"date":"2021-01-21T19:11:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T02:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/approaching-storms-expected-to-drop-more-snow-on-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2021-01-22T02:11:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T02:11:37","slug":"approaching-storms-expected-to-drop-more-snow-on-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/approaching-storms-expected-to-drop-more-snow-on-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Approaching storms expected to drop more snow on 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=ad824ff4-dd9d-46d7-b1ef-021c8eeacf13&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1542\" height=\"1028\" alt=\"The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory starting Friday evening for the southwest San Juan Mountains, specifically the towns of Silverton, Rico and Hesperus.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory starting Friday evening for the southwest San Juan Mountains, specifically the towns of Silverton, Rico and Hesperus.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>More snow is expected for Southwest Colorado as a storm moves through the region this weekend, with another following next week.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for the southwest San Juan Mountains, specifically the towns of Silverton, Rico and Hesperus. The advisory will be in effect from 5 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Sunday, with precipitation temporarily tapering off Saturday night before increasing Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravel could be very difficult, especially over mountain passes,\u201d said Brianna Bealo, meteorologist with the Weather Service. \u201cIf anybody\u2019s going to be traveling this weekend, they\u2019re definitely going to want to pay attention and be prepared for adverse travel conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The storm is dropping in from the northern Pacific Coast, and weather models show it will split when it is above the Utah area. Part will head south over southern Colorado, and part will head north, Bealo said.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez is expected to receive a couple of inches of snow on Friday and an inch on Saturday. Snow showers also are likely through Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>Higher areas could see 6 to 15 inches depending on the elevation. Greater snow buildup is expected for elevations higher than 8,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit uncertain still. With the way this thing is splitting, it\u2019s hard to tell how much energy and moisture is going to be with it,\u201d Bealo said. \u201cWe\u2019re still watching and seeing how it\u2019s going to develop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A storm earlier this week, which dropped about 10 inches of snow on Durango, followed a similar trajectory. The Weather Service is tracking another winter storm with a similar pattern that is expected to pass over southern Colorado next week.<\/p>\n<p>A detailed map of snowfall can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/gjt\/winter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.weather.gov\/gjt\/winter<\/a>. The latest road conditions can be obtained by calling 511.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:smullane@durangoherald.com\">smullane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>weather advisory starts Friday evening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[950,28,866,29,497,327,1164,414,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-durango","tag-headlines","tag-hesperus","tag-newsletter","tag-rico","tag-silverton","tag-snow","tag-weather","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49144","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=49144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49144"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}