{"id":65083,"date":"2020-03-29T22:28:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T22:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/storm-expected-to-bring-light-rain-snow-to-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:07:29","slug":"storm-expected-to-bring-light-rain-snow-to-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/storm-expected-to-bring-light-rain-snow-to-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm expected to bring light rain, snow to 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=8ae1b8fb-9fd8-4147-8fff-217d51eaba8a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Durango Herald file&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Isolated rain showers are expected around Durango beginning Sunday afternoon, with the precipitation likely to change to a rain-snow mix overnight. Little or no accumulation is expected in Durango.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Durango Herald file&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Isolated rain showers are expected around Durango beginning Sunday afternoon, with the precipitation likely to change to a rain-snow mix overnight. Little or no accumulation is expected in Durango.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Southwest Colorado could see rain Sunday and a light rain-snow mix overnight that is not expected to leave much on the ground. However, 1 to 3 inches could be added to the snowpack in the San Juan Mountains above 10,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Charnick, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, said, \u201cSilverton could see up to 3 inches of snow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charnick said the storm is expected to move out of Southwest Colorado by noon Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez can expect isolated rain showers into Monday morning. The chance for precipitation in Cortez is only 20% Sunday and 30% Sunday night and Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The chance of snow is higher in the high country, with Silverton listed as having a 70% chance of receiving snow beginning Sunday afternoon and extending through early afternoon Monday.<\/p>\n<p>After this storm, which is coming from the west, off the coast of California, moves out, Charnick expected clearing skies early next week.<\/p>\n<p>The next chance of precipitation, he said, will be a slight chance of snow in the high country on Thursday, but the Thursday storm is unlikely to bring any precipitation to lower elevations of Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The snowpack in Southwest Colorado \u2013 covering the Animas, Dolores, San Juan and San Miguel Rivers \u2013 was listed on Sunday at 100% of the 30-year average by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov\/ftpref\/gis\/images\/co_swepctnormal_update.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado SNOTEL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The avalanche risk in the San Juan Mountains was listed as moderate on Sunday by the <a href=\"https:\/\/avalanche.state.co.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Avalanche Information Center<\/a>.<\/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>Clearing skies expected early this week after storm departs early Monday afternoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65083","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=65083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89725,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65083\/revisions\/89725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65083"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}