{"id":72803,"date":"2017-01-04T02:19:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T09:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/southwest-colorado-faces-winter-storm-warning\/"},"modified":"2017-01-04T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T09:19:04","slug":"southwest-colorado-faces-winter-storm-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/southwest-colorado-faces-winter-storm-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Colorado faces winter storm warning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c9316825-59c7-4d9a-a48d-4b784394ee28&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"A first responder with Durango Fire Protection District works the scene of a single-vehicle crash in which a small pickup slid off U.S. Highway 550 at East Animas Road (County Road 250) north of Durango on Monday afternoon. No injuries were reported.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A first responder with Durango Fire Protection District works the scene of a single-vehicle crash in which a small pickup slid off U.S. Highway 550 at East Animas Road (County Road 250) north of Durango on Monday afternoon. No injuries were reported.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Shaun Stanley\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A winter storm warning will be in effect until Friday morning throughout Southwest Colorado, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Department of Transportation on Tuesday night warned that 2 feet of snow could fall through Friday morning in the southern San Juan Mountains, including Rico, Telluride and Hesperus. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center warned that mountain drivers would face snow slide mitigation along mountain passes, such as Wolf Creek Pass. The avalanche control work will cause travel delays while operations take place and plows clear the roads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be a lengthy event, lasting more than two days for much of Colorado,\u201d said Kyle Lester, CDOT director of highway maintenance. \u201cTravelers will need to be prepared with adequate snow tires or other traction devices.\u201d Chain laws may be in effect for commercial drivers.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service in Grand Junction forecasts a 60-70 percent chance of snow in Montezuma County on Wednesday through Thursday, with about an inch of accumulated snow. High temperatures are expected to be in the middle to upper 30s, and overnight lows about 20 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The storm is expected to move out of the area on Friday afternoon, followed by sunny skies on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The cold and snow is expected to hit across the state.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Denver canceled the annual parade of cowboys and cattle through downtown that kicks off the National Western Stock Show because of expected frigid weather and snow.<\/p>\n<p>With the temperature forecast to only reach 6 degrees at noon on Thursday, parade organizers say the risk of injury to animals and people was too great to continue with the tradition, the Associated Press reported. The parade won\u2019t be rescheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Between 5 and 10 inches of snow are also expected to fall in the Denver area between Wednesday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>CDOT road crews were been on avalanche control along U.S. Highway 550 all Tuesday morning starting on Coal Bank Pass and working toward the northern side of Molas Pass, spokeswoman Lisa Schwantes said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been intermittent delays on 550, and we anticipate heavy snowfall tonight,\u201d Schwantes said.<\/p>\n<p>Chain laws for commercial vehicles were in effect on Coal Bank and Molas passes. Chain laws also are in effect on U.S. Highway 160 at Wolf Creek Pass.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">The Durango Herald contributed to this article.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>expected to get up to 2 feet of snow; Montezuma County, a couple of inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-72803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72803","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=72803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72803"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=72803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}