{"id":74558,"date":"2020-01-27T16:54:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-little-storms-expected-this-week-in-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:37:00","slug":"two-little-storms-expected-this-week-in-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-little-storms-expected-this-week-in-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Two little storms expected this week in Southwest Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=56cae5d6-f6b2-49d4-81ff-09b0cd7ebac7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"887\" alt=\"Another small snowstorm is expected to move through Southwest Colorado on Monday, with accumulations of less than half an inch expected in Durango, Cortez and Pagosa Springs.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Another small snowstorm is expected to move through Southwest Colorado on Monday, with accumulations of less than half an inch expected in Durango, Cortez and Pagosa Springs.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Storm cells like Monday\u2019s are expected to move through Southwest Colorado on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s storm was expected to move on quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like a lot of storms this winter,\u201d said Tom Renwick, meteorologist with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/gjt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Weather Service in Grand Junction<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s a quick, little wave that doesn\u2019t have a lot of moisture associated with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most of the storms this winter have originated off the Northwest Coast, which generally doesn\u2019t produce the largest snowfall amounts for Southwest Colorado, Renwick said.<\/p>\n<p>Bigger snowstorms in the Four Corners tend to come from off the coast of California, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt all depends on where the jet stream sets up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>After Thursday, Renwick said the Four Corners should remain dry through Feb. 5. He added the winter is not over, and there is still time for the jet stream to move \u2013 bringing in storms with more snow punch to them to Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the small accumulations left from each of the storms this winter, their frequency has kept regional snowpack healthy.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov\/ftpref\/states\/co\/snow\/state\/daily\/co_update_snow.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado SNOTEL<\/a>, the Animas, Dolores, San Juan and San Miguel river basins have 114% of their average 30-year snowpack as of Jan. 23.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purgatoryresort.com\/snow-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Purgatory Resort<\/a> reported a 46-inch base depth with nine of 12 lifts open. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tellurideskiresort.com\/the-mountain\/snow-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telluride Ski Area<\/a> reported a 45-inch base with all 17 lifts open. <a href=\"https:\/\/wolfcreekski.com\/snow-report-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolf Creek Ski Area<\/a> reported a 67-inch base with all nine lifts open.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:parmijo@durangoherald.com\">parmijo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this winter have come from Pacific Northwest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-74558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/74558","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=74558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90451,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74558\/revisions\/90451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74558"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=74558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}