{"id":56422,"date":"2013-10-30T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/snow-rain-a-good-start-for-upcoming-winter\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T15:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:53:34","slug":"snow-rain-a-good-start-for-upcoming-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/snow-rain-a-good-start-for-upcoming-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow, rain a good start for upcoming winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWe had five months of below-normal, but then made it all up in a two-month period,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For the year-to-date, the Cortez area is a 12.70 inches of total precipitation. Average to date amount is 11.13 inches.<\/p>\n<p>August brought 3.69 inches of rain, and September showed 2.92 inches, compared to the average of 1.37 inches and 1.31 inches, respectively, for those months.<\/p>\n<p>The extra rain helped to fill reservoirs depleted from a dry early summer, and has nearly filled Narraguinnepp Reservoir, a good start for next year\u2019s irrigation season.<\/p>\n<p>In Dolores and Mancos, the towns\u2019 first snowstorm of the season, Tuesday, Oct. 29, left a skiff of snow on the ground, and created white-out driving conditions after sundown. Snow fell above 8,000 feet, with Rico accumulating 2 inches as snow continued to fall early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Weather is expected to clear in Cortez, with temperatures reaching into the high 50s for the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe had five months of below-normal, but then made it all up in a two-month period,\u201d he said. For the year-to-date, the Cortez area is a 12.70 inches of total precipitation. Average to date amount is 11.13 inches. August brought 3.69 inches of rain, and September showed 2.92 inches, compared to the average of 1.37 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,414,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-56422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-weather","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56422","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=56422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62588,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56422\/revisions\/62588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56422"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=56422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}