{"id":89899,"date":"2020-03-22T23:19:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T23:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-storms-expected-this-week-in-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:16:25","slug":"two-storms-expected-this-week-in-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-storms-expected-this-week-in-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Two 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=7c569ccf-47fa-4525-a08b-6de07718615a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"962\" alt=\"Two storms are expected this week in Southwest Colorado, the first arriving Monday afternoon and the second, stronger storm expected to arrive early Thursday morning.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Two storms are expected this week in Southwest Colorado, the first arriving Monday afternoon and the second, stronger storm expected to arrive early Thursday morning.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Two storms are expected to bring rain and snow to Southwest Colorado in the upcoming week with the first, weaker storm expected to move in Monday afternoon and a stronger storm expected Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s storm is expected to bring only 2 to 4 inches to the San Juan Mountains, with Durango and Cortez expected to see isolated rain showers with perhaps a dusting of snow as the precipitation extends into the colder early hours of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Pagosa Springs could see snow or a rain-snow mix on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis storm on Monday will move pretty quickly,\u201d said Scott Stearns, meteorologist with the National Weather Service,<\/p>\n<p>A second, stronger storm moving in from the Pacific Northwest is expected to arrive early Thursday morning and could bring between 8 inches to 1 foot of snow to the San Juan Mountains, Stearns said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThursday morning, we should see more significant snowfall, perhaps even see some accumulations in the valleys, Durango, Dolores and Mancos. The higher elevations could see a foot.\u201d Stearns said.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s storm appears to be slower-moving, which will likely increase the amount of snow it brings, Stearns said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody at high elevations is going to see a good amount of snow from this one. It does look to be slow-moving, but things could change by Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The snowpack in Southwest Colorado was listed at 101% of the 30-year average by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov\/ftpref\/gis\/images\/co_swepctnormal_update.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado SNOTEL<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/avalanche.state.co.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Avalanche Information Center<\/a> lists the risk for avalanches in the San Juan Mountains at moderate on Sunday.<\/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>Strongest storm expected to hit early Thursday morning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,4259,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-89899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter-sign-up","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89899","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=89899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89901,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89899\/revisions\/89901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89899"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=89899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}