{"id":66282,"date":"2020-01-29T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/snow-expected-monday-but-todays-expected-storm-fails-to-hit-four-corners\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:36:57","slug":"snow-expected-monday-but-todays-expected-storm-fails-to-hit-four-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/snow-expected-monday-but-todays-expected-storm-fails-to-hit-four-corners\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow expected Monday, but today\u2019s expected storm fails to hit Four Corners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cd86ae50-a267-4c93-ba9f-db7754e0a2e5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1928\" height=\"1143\" alt=\"According to Colorado SNOTEL, the snowpack in Southwest Colorado is at 108% of the 30-year average as of today.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">According to Colorado SNOTEL, the snowpack in Southwest Colorado is at 108% of the 30-year average as of today.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A snowstorm is expected to hit Southwest Colorado Monday and Tuesday, but the light snow expected over the region today never made it far enough south.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Stearns, meteorologist with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/gjt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Weather Service in Grand Junction<\/a>, said a high pressure system from the south rose further north than expected today keeping snow out of Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you haven\u2019t got snow by (9:30 a.m.), you\u2019re not likely to see snow today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, another even smaller storm coming through Thursday likely won\u2019t sink far enough south to impact Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The next chance of snow in the Four Corners will be Monday and Tuesday, Stearns said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like a decent chance you\u2019ll see precipitation out of that system. There might even be some winter weather advisories in the mountains,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Through the remainder of the week, temperatures should warm until the next system arrives Monday. Weekend highs are expected to push into the upper 40s and the low 50s in lower elevations of Southwest Colorado, Stearns said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Colorado SNOTEL, the snowpack in Southwest Colorado is at 108% of the 30-year average as of today.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:parmijo@the-journal.com\">parmijo@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snowpack in SW Colorado at 108% of average<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,28,29,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-66282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead","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\/66282","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=66282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90439,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66282\/revisions\/90439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66282"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=66282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}