{"id":76159,"date":"2017-11-06T09:14:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T16:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/winter-weather-advisory-snow-in-the-mountains\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:40:06","slug":"winter-weather-advisory-snow-in-the-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/winter-weather-advisory-snow-in-the-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter weather advisory: Snow in the mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b140b1cf-3c66-4f60-9f08-ab10fd7c2538&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" alt=\"Snow accumulates on U.S. Highway 550 during last Tuesday\u2019s storm.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Snow accumulates on U.S. Highway 550 during last Tuesday\u2019s storm.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The National Weather Service has announced that a winter weather advisory is in effect for Southwest Colorado from 9 p.m. Monday through 11 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Moderate to heavy snowfall is expected, producing wet and snowpacked roads in the San Juan Mountains in Montezuma, Dolores and La Plata counties.<\/p>\n<p>By Wednesday morning, 5 to 10 inches of snow is expected at 9,500 feet, with up to a foot on some westerly slopes above 10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest winds will gust at 35 to 45 mph above 10,000 feet, creating areas of blowing and drifting snow, the weather service said. Visibility may be reduced to less than a half-mile on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>In Montezuma County, isolated showers are expected after 4 p.m. on Monday, with a high temperature of 51 degrees. Monday night, there\u2019s a 70 percent chance of showers, with a low of 38 degrees and winds of 5-10 mph.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, rain and snow showers are likely beginning in the morning, with a high near 48 degrees. Tuesday night, there\u2019s a 50 percent chance of rain showers starting at 10 p.m. The low temperature is expected to be 30 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Sunny skies are expected Wednesday through Sunday, with highs rising from about 49 degrees on Wednesday to 58 by Sunday. Overnight lows are expected to be about 32 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>In La Plata County, isolated showers are expected after 11 p.m. Monday, with a high temperature of 52 degrees. Monday night, there\u2019s a 70 percent chance of showers, with a low of 38 degrees and winds of 5-10 mph.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, rain and snow showers are likely to begin before 4 p.m., with a high near 49 degrees. Tuesday night, there\u2019s a 50 percent chance of rain showers before 1 a.m., and a slight chance of snow showers after 3 a.m. The low temperature is expected to be 30 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Sunny skies are expected Wednesday through Sunday, with highs rising from about 51 degrees on Wednesday to 58 by Sunday. Overnight lows are expected to be about 28-30 degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mix of rain and snow expected in Montezuma, Dolores counties<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,44,13,28,60,414,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-76159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-weather","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76159","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=76159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76161,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76159\/revisions\/76161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76159"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=76159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}