{"id":73190,"date":"2017-02-06T01:22:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T08:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/snow-rain-forecast-for-early-this-week\/"},"modified":"2017-02-06T08:22:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T08:22:02","slug":"snow-rain-forecast-for-early-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/snow-rain-forecast-for-early-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow, rain forecast for early this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0d4c8d26-e74b-4c14-bb59-a351a458785d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1542\" height=\"1008\" alt=\"A plow on Coal Bank Pass last month. The National Weather Service says up to 2 feet of snow could fall in Southwest Colorado\u2019s mountains early this week.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A plow on Coal Bank Pass last month. The National Weather Service says up to 2 feet of snow could fall in Southwest Colorado\u2019s mountains early this week.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A mix of snow and rain could make for sloppy conditions Monday and Tuesday in Montezuma County, but at higher elevations, the moisture could result in up to 2 feet of snow, according to the National Weather Service in Grand Junction.<\/p>\n<p>A winter storm advisory has been issued from 3 p.m. Monday until 6 p.m. Wednesday for parts of Southwest Colorado above 7,500 feet in elevation, including the San Juan Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>The snow is expected to begin Tuesday when temperatures drop to about 28 degrees, according to the weather service. The snow will turn to rain later in the day as temperatures inch toward a high of 40 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The storm is expected to repeat that pattern on Tuesday \u2013 snow in the morning and rain in the afternoon \u2013 and then clear out on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A few more storms are shaping up for later this week, but details remained a little hazy Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s storm is blowing in from the Pacific west-northwest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe system is pretty warm,\u201d said Andrew Lyons, meteorologist with the National Weather Service. \u201cWe\u2019re kind of starting to get hints of spring. You guys are going to be bouncing back and forth between freezing and above-freezing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>advisory issued through Wednesday for San Juan Mountains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73191,"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-73190","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\/73190","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=73190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73190"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}