{"id":91890,"date":"2019-11-03T04:23:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T04:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cold-october-sets-record-in-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2019-11-03T04:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T04:23:15","slug":"cold-october-sets-record-in-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cold-october-sets-record-in-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold October sets record 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=b9bb73fa-e4a0-4ac9-aeb0-09efb8210a25&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"983\" alt=\"Cold October temperatures brought snow level down to just above the Animas Valley after a recent storm.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cold October temperatures brought snow level down to just above the Animas Valley after a recent storm.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A chilly Halloween with overnight temperatures dropping into single digits capped the coldest October on record in Southwest Colorado, according to the National Weather Service in Grand Junction.<\/p>\n<p>The average temperature last month in Durango tracked lower than the same measurement for all Octobers since 1996, said National Weather Service Meteorologist Chris Sanders. The same goes for Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>Weather observers in Grand Junction \u2013 who have taken, kept and tracked temperature records since 1893 \u2013 also recorded a record cold average in October.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s basically, from what I can gather, kind of just out of the blue,\u201d Sanders said of the record-setting cold. \u201cLooking back at the last 10 years, we really haven\u2019t had anything this cold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have these colder years sprinkled in there,\u201d he said. \u201c2009 was another one that was pretty similar to this round. Another in 2006. It\u2019s hard to really justify any trend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NWS forecasts below-normal precipitation, above-average temperatures and a dry atmosphere for the first two weeks of November, Sanders said.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cridge\u201d of high pressure \u201cthat\u2019s basically a block\u201d to moisture-bringing storms in the Southwest hasn\u2019t moved and isn\u2019t forecast to any time soon, he said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:bhauff@durangoherald.com\">bhauff@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dry, warm weather is expected in early November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5738,5737,5736,5735,5741,5841,5842],"tags":[21,28,29,414,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-91890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cortez","category-headlines","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","category-weather","category-weather-news","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-weather","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91890","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=91890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91890"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=91890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}