{"id":65380,"date":"2019-12-14T18:59:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T01:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/heavy-snow-strong-winds-predicted-for-san-juan-mountains\/"},"modified":"2019-12-15T01:59:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T01:59:11","slug":"heavy-snow-strong-winds-predicted-for-san-juan-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/heavy-snow-strong-winds-predicted-for-san-juan-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy snow, strong winds predicted for San Juan Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2c397ccf-6ac5-4c90-b737-20f18a008aea&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1542\" height=\"1008\" alt=\"Colorado Department of Transpiration is preparing for difficult-to-impossible travel on mountain passes around the San Juan Mountains until at least Sunday night.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Colorado Department of Transpiration is preparing for difficult-to-impossible travel on mountain passes around the San Juan Mountains until at least Sunday night.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Snow is on its way to Southwest Colorado, meteorologists predict, and the Colorado Department of Transportation is preparing for slick conditions in the southern San Juan Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>A winter storm warning is in effect until midnight Sunday for the southwest San Juan Mountains, with heavy and blowing snow predicted to accumulate from 8 to 20 inches, according to the National Weather Service in Grand Junction.<\/p>\n<p>Winds may gust up to 50 miles per hour, and some areas may get up to 2 feet of snow, making travel \u201cvery difficult to impossible\u201d around Telluride, Ouray, Lake City, Silverton, Rico and Hesperus, according to the winter storm warning.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=57fdebc2-2b76-4e65-922a-1a7c7ae38500&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"Meteorologists predict up to 20 inches of snow by Monday in the southwest San Juan Mountains.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Meteorologists predict up to 20 inches of snow by Monday in the southwest San Juan Mountains.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of the National Weather Service in Grand Junction<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensnow.com\/state\/CO\/map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenSnow.com<\/a> predicts 9 inches of snow at Purgatory Resort in the next five days \u2013 Wolf Creek could get up to 24 inches by Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides high mountain showers, the bulk of the storm should start sometime late this evening across the Four Corners and into the San Juan (Mountains),\u201d said meteorologist Dennis Phillips. \u201cThe (weather) system is diving into Great Basin at that time, and that should help pull cold air down and focus into the south.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CDOT, as of noon Saturday, has enacted commercial and passenger vehicle restrictions on Wolf Creek Pass. An alert posted Friday night on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotrip.org\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COtrip.org<\/a> warns drivers of possible mountain pass restrictions and closures.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures at lower elevations are expected to hover around freezing as snow falls Saturday night into Sunday. Snow may pack on U.S. Highways 550 and 160 at higher elevations, Phillips said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe ready for some wintry travel conditions through tomorrow (Sunday), and probably into early Monday,\u201d he said. \u201cThe roadways might be a little messy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>see 50 mph gusts, up to 2 feet of snow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,1164,88,1163],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-snow","tag-weather-news","tag-weather-science"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65380","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=65380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65380"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}