{"id":70219,"date":"2016-10-10T23:13:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/purgatory-starts-making-snow\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T05:13:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:13:30","slug":"purgatory-starts-making-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/purgatory-starts-making-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Purgatory starts making snow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=65208b1d-5627-4937-9d99-09fed716a40c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1213\" alt=\"Snowmaking and Terrain Park Manager Josh Hamill adjusts snowmaking equipment in 2013 at Purgatory Resort. The resort starting making snow this week in preparation for opening day.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Snowmaking and Terrain Park Manager Josh Hamill adjusts snowmaking equipment in 2013 at Purgatory Resort. The resort starting making snow this week in preparation for opening day.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">SHAUN STANLEY\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Snow is in air, some man-made and maybe some natural flakes near Silverton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purgatoryresort.com\/the-mountain\/opening-day-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Purgatory Resort<\/a> starting making snow this week in preparation for opening day on Nov. 19, the resort said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>This would be the second consecutive year the resort has opened before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>Silverton could see some snow mixed in with the rain Sunday, said Andrew Lyons, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>But it is not expected to accumulate, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A change of rain could linger through Tuesday in Silverton, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Lyons expected the conditions at Purgatory would not be optimal for snowmaking, but likely workable.<\/p>\n<p>Loveland Ski Area and Copper Mountain Resort have also started making snow, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>It is still too warm for Durango to see snow, but there is a 50 percent chance of rain on Sunday. The most likely time for rain is Sunday afternoon through Monday morning, Lyons said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@durangoherald.com\">mshinn@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>predicted in Durango<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[378,13,1792,1660],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-alpine-skiing","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-snow-sports","tag-snowboarding"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70219","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=70219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70219"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}