{"id":53565,"date":"2020-06-04T22:45:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T04:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rain-expected-friday-night-saturday-over-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:05:02","slug":"rain-expected-friday-night-saturday-over-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rain-expected-friday-night-saturday-over-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain expected Friday night, Saturday over 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=64af287e-b244-4d6d-9036-0aae951761a1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1542\" height=\"952\" alt=\"Durango Herald file &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Rain is expected in Southwest Colorado beginning Friday night and extending through Saturday morning.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Durango Herald file &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Rain is expected in Southwest Colorado beginning Friday night and extending through Saturday morning.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Our oddly wet June weather is expected to continue with a rain system moving over the Southwest Colorado beginning Friday night and extending into Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The system will contain enough moisture that the National Weather Service expects to issue warnings for the potential of localized flooding, especially over the 416 Fire burn scar in the San Juan National Forest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will depend how the storm comes in and if it is heavy over the burn scar,\u201d said Matthew Aleska, meteorologist with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/gjt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Weather Service in Grand Junction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Durango could see anywhere from three-tenths of an inch to a half inch of rain by the time the storm clears out Saturday afternoon, Aleska said. Silverton is expected to receive about three-quarters of an inch or more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSilverton could see an inch,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rain could linger longer in the high country Saturday, but skies at lower elevations should be clearing Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking at widespread rain. It will begin Friday night, but the heaviest rain will likely fall Saturday morning. It will be similar to a monsoon storm with moisture coming up from the southwest,\u201d Aleska said.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the storm is stuck over California, but high pressure over the Four Corners will move east Friday, allowing the storm to move out of neutral and come inland.<\/p>\n<p>Like earlier this week, the pattern is similar to monsoon storms that usually begin in early July.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, unlike the typical monsoon system, no follow-up rains are in the forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Aleska said after this system moves out Saturday afternoon, no chance of rain is in the short-term forecast.<\/p>\n<p>A dry system is expected to move over Southwest Colorado on Monday, and it should keep temperatures below normal for Monday and Tuesday \u2013 in the low 70s for Durango and Cortez and the low 60s in the high country.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:parmijo@durangoherald.com\">parmijo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Weather Service says monsoon-like storm holds potential for localized flooding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53566,"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-53565","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\/53565","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=53565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88314,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53565\/revisions\/88314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53565"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=53565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}