{"id":53642,"date":"2020-05-31T22:44:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T04:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/monsoon-like-storms-set-to-continue-in-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2020-06-01T04:44:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T04:44:38","slug":"monsoon-like-storms-set-to-continue-in-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/monsoon-like-storms-set-to-continue-in-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon-like storms set to continue in Southwest Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b6ee52c0-ef2e-4570-aa88-8f82ce1bf374&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>\u201cWe\u2019re about a month ahead of schedule,\u201d said Kris Sanders, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service at Grand Junction.<\/p>\n<p>The monsoon season starts between mid-June and the beginning of July. Other areas of the desert Southwest, in southern California, Arizona and New Mexico, have already declared the season\u2019s start mostly to remind people of the threats that come with thunderstorms, Sanders said. Thunderstorms can cause cloud-to-ground lightning (which can spark wildfires), gusty wind, heavy rain and flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p>The regular pattern of afternoon storms will continue into this week. The storms are most likely in higher elevations, and it is unclear if some will appear in valleys, Sanders said. The storms are created by high pressure in the upper levels of the atmosphere, moisture from the south and daytime heating.<\/p>\n<p>A weather system coming from the California coast might cause more widespread showers until the end of the week, but the strength of that system is still uncertain, Sanders said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be interesting to see how June bears out, especially if we continue this monsoon-like pattern,\u201d Sanders said.<\/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>du1-i-syn \u201cWe\u2019re about a month ahead of schedule,\u201d said Kris Sanders, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service at Grand Junction. The monsoon season starts between mid-June and the beginning of July. Other areas of the desert Southwest, in southern California, Arizona and New Mexico, have already declared the season\u2019s start mostly to remind people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,414,1163],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-53642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-weather","tag-weather-science"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53642","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=53642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53642"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=53642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}