{"id":51730,"date":"2020-09-07T00:40:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/snow-yes-snow-enters-forecast-for-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:57:11","slug":"snow-yes-snow-enters-forecast-for-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/snow-yes-snow-enters-forecast-for-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow, yes snow, enters forecast 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=66dfadf4-49a8-4d11-ab01-19253a2dd078&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1386\" height=\"829\" alt=\"A quick-moving cold front should leave mountain peaks with a frosting of snow Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. There\u2019s even a chance for some snow in Durango and Cortez.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A quick-moving cold front should leave mountain peaks with a frosting of snow Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. There\u2019s even a chance for some snow in Durango and Cortez.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>After weeks of highs in the 90s, Southwest Coloradans can expect to see a frosting of snow in the San Juan Mountains on Wednesday morning \u2013 there\u2019s even a chance for a dusting in Durango and Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>The Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office relayed an alert about the winter storm watch, in effect late Monday night through Wednesday morning. Six to 12 inches of snow is possible above 9,000 feet elevation in the San Juan Mountains, with the \u201cdusting\u201d below 9,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say it probably gets through Durango, in the mid- to late morning Wednesday, and you\u2019ll be looking at a pretty drastic drop in temperatures. Tuesday\u2019s highs in Southwest Colorado will be in the morning, and it will get colder through the day,\u201d said Mark Miller, a meteorologist with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/gjt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Weather Service in Grand Junction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Drops in temperature of 20 degrees to 50 degrees are likely across western Colorado and eastern Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Durango\u2019s low temperature Monday night is expected to be 50 degrees. Tuesday night\u2019s low is expected to be 31 degrees. Durango\u2019s high temperature Tuesday is expected to be 69 with a high of 61 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the weather service\u2019s five-day forecast, Durango has a 30% chance of showers after 10 p.m. Tuesday night and a 20% chance of snow through Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez is expected to see a low Tuesday night of 31 degrees, after Monday night\u2019s low of 51. Cortez has a 20% chance of a rain-snow mix late Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be a quick-moving storm coming in from the north, out of Canada. It will be in and out, and by Thursday more seasonable temperatures will be returning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the weekend, you\u2019ll be looking at highs back in the 80s in Durango. In the deserts of Utah, highs will be back in the hundreds,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>Miller said the heaviest snowfall is expected along the Continental Divide, but western Colorado should see mountain peaks sporting a fresh frosting.<\/p>\n<p>When you get farther west, to the Utah Colorado border, I think there\u2019s going to be a lot less precipitation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">parmijo @durangoherald.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>expected Tuesday night, Wednesday morning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51730","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=51730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87993,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51730\/revisions\/87993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51730"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}