{"id":89271,"date":"2020-04-16T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/up-to-12-inches-of-snow-forecast-for-san-juan-mountains\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:45:28","slug":"up-to-12-inches-of-snow-forecast-for-san-juan-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/up-to-12-inches-of-snow-forecast-for-san-juan-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to 12 inches of snow forecast for San Juan 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=0c7ab283-9665-449a-9cda-5ed1e21cc6d1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1262\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A winter weather advisory has been issued until noon Friday for the San Juan Mountains \u2013 including the towns of Silverton, Rico, Telluride, Ouray and Lake City \u2013 with 6 to 12 inches of snow expected.<\/p>\n<p>The storm is expected to favor the mountains and do little in the way of precipitation for lower elevations like Cortez, Durango and Pagosa Springs, said Megan Stackhouse, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Grand Junction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys could see some light precipitation, but right now, we\u2019re not looking at anything measurable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The cold front is dropping in from the Northern Rockies, which means it will bring cooler temperatures Thursday and Friday, with highs in the mid-50s and lows just below freezing in Durango.<\/p>\n<p>A jet stream associated with the storm in the upper atmosphere is expected to produce high winds during the duration of the storm, Stackhouse said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce this system moves out of the region later this week, the winds are going to start to die down again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She described the storm as typical springtime weather in the Rockies. The weather is in an unsettled pattern, and small disturbances are expected through the weekend and early next week.<\/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>is arriving from Northern Rockies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89272,"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-89271","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\/89271","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=89271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89274,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89271\/revisions\/89274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89271"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=89271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}