{"id":50272,"date":"2020-11-22T16:35:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T23:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/moderate-to-heavy-snow-expected-in-southwest-colorados-high-country\/"},"modified":"2020-11-22T23:35:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T23:35:09","slug":"moderate-to-heavy-snow-expected-in-southwest-colorados-high-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/moderate-to-heavy-snow-expected-in-southwest-colorados-high-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderate to heavy snow expected in Southwest Colorado\u2019s high country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b15dcdd5-a195-4944-88b2-3fa69c13fdbe&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1262\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Moderate to heavy snow is expected in Southwest Colorado\u2019s high country beginning Sunday evening and lasting through early Tuesday, with the potential for rain in Durango and Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Stackhouse, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, said a winter storm warning is in effect for elevations above 9,500 feet, starting at 6 p.m. Sunday and lasting until 11 a.m. Tuesday. Eight to 16 inches of snow are expected in the southwest San Juan Mountains, and 6 to 12 inches are expected in the northwest San Juan, Elk and Sawatch mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Amounts totaling up to 20 inches are possible on favored southwest-facing slopes, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a warm system, so for now it\u2019s looking like things are going to stay as rain at lower elevations,\u201d she said, \u201cdown in Durango and Cortez until Monday night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NWS forecast gives Durango an 80% chance of rain Sunday night through Monday, with a 60% chance of rain or snow Monday night. Chances of precipitation in Cortez vary between 40% Sunday and Monday night and 50% during the day on Monday.<\/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>expected to last through early Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,414,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-50272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-weather","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50272","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=50272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50272"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=50272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}