{"id":91340,"date":"2019-12-12T22:32:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/snow-on-radar-for-this-weekend-in-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2019-12-12T22:32:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:32:41","slug":"snow-on-radar-for-this-weekend-in-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/snow-on-radar-for-this-weekend-in-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow on radar for this weekend 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=abb8a064-b361-485f-ac41-1600a8310f8a&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>Expect some snow this weekend in Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Weather Service, a storm is moving into the region beginning Thursday, bringing with it the chance for snow until Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>During this time period, 6 to 14 inches of new snow accumulation is possible in the high country of the San Juan Mountains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenSnow.com<\/a> is calling for 7 inches of snow at Purgatory Resort and nearly a foot of new snow at Wolf Creek Ski Area.<\/p>\n<p>The NWS issued a winter storm watch that takes effect Saturday afternoon through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Towns listed in the watch include Silverton, Hesperus, Ouray, Rico, Ridgway, Telluride and Monticello.<\/p>\n<p>Travel is expected to be difficult, especially on mountain passes, with patchy blowing snow reducing visibility.<\/p>\n<p>The NWS says periodic breaks in snowfall are possible during the storm.<\/p>\n<p>In Durango, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a slight chance of snow late Thursday into Friday. Wind gusts during this time could be as high as 25 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday and Sunday, the NWS says precipitation could fall as a mix of snow and rain, depending on temperatures. The daytime high Saturday and Sunday is 43 and 38, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Snow is expected to taper off across Southwest Colorado by Sunday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Weather Service says up to a foot could drop in high country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,29,712,414,88,372],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-91340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-purgatory","tag-weather","tag-weather-news","tag-wolf-creek-ski-area"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91340","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=91340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91340"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=91340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}