{"id":89225,"date":"2020-04-20T01:55:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T07:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/scattered-showers-forecast-through-wednesday-in-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2020-04-20T01:55:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T07:55:02","slug":"scattered-showers-forecast-through-wednesday-in-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/scattered-showers-forecast-through-wednesday-in-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Scattered showers forecast through Wednesday 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=4bc6cdf1-372c-45f9-b30f-7a486d3c6da9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Scattered rain showers are expected in Southwest Colorado from Sunday through<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Scattered rain showers are expected in Southwest Colorado Sunday evening through Wednesday, with the best chance to see rain coming Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The moisture will fall as scattered snowfall in the high country, above 8,500 feet in elevation, said Dan Cuevas, technician with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/gjt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Weather Service in Grand Junction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll have a series of storm coming through, nothing exceptionally strong. Tuesday looks like the best day for a chance of precipitation. Tuesday starts out with a 20% chance in Durango and builds through the day to a 50% chance,\u201d Cuevas said.<\/p>\n<p>The storm Tuesday might bring about one-tenth of an inch of rain in Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast for Cortez is similar: a good chance of rain expected on Tuesday, but a slight chance of showers through Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Silverton and Telluride could see intermittent snow Sunday through Wednesday, with periods of snow broken up with mostly sunny skies.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, the chance of snow in Silverton ranges from 60% to 90% and from 40% to 80% in Telluride.<\/p>\n<p>Cuevas expected snowfall in Silverton to range from 4 inches to 8 inches from Sunday through Wednesday, but he said periods of sun will come in and melt some of it away. Wednesday morning, he said, Silverton might have a couple of inches of accumulation.<\/p>\n<p>The snowfall will provide help to the seasonal snowpack, which has now fallen well below 100% of the 30-year average.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov\/ftpref\/gis\/images\/co_swepctnormal_update.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado SNOTEL<\/a>, as of Sunday Southwest Colorado had only 89% of the 30-year average snowfall.<\/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>Tuesday will see the best chance of precipitation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89227,"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-89225","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\/89225","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=89225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89225"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=89225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}