{"id":73642,"date":"2016-08-22T03:50:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T09:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/powerful-storms-expected-early-this-week\/"},"modified":"2016-08-22T09:50:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T09:50:52","slug":"powerful-storms-expected-early-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/powerful-storms-expected-early-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful storms expected 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=c2a1b623-7529-4007-a210-8312c0ec82b9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Powerful thunderstorms are expected to begin Sunday night and intensify Monday and Tuesday, Joe Ramey, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service\u2019s Grand Junction office, says. The storms could even bring light snow in the high country above 11,000 feet.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Powerful thunderstorms are expected to begin Sunday night and intensify Monday and Tuesday, Joe Ramey, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service\u2019s Grand Junction office, says. The storms could even bring light snow in the high country above 11,000 feet.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Nick Gonzales\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Powerful thunderstorms will settle over Southwest Colorado early this week, and they will bring a chance of light snow in the high country, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologist Joe Ramey, with the weather service\u2019s Grand Junction office, said thunderstorms and precipitation will intensify Monday and Tuesday. The events are expected to bring hail and graupel (snow pellets).<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures will remain in the mid-70s during the day, with overnight lows in the 50s.<\/p>\n<p>In elevations at 11,000 feet and above, Ramey said the storms could bring light snowfall, yet not in amounts that are expected to accumulate.<\/p>\n<p>Rain and storms will become more scattered Wednesday, and they will remain that way for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ramey said storms will pick up again this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our wet season,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re producing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in high country possible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73643,"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-73642","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\/73642","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=73642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73642"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}