{"id":92386,"date":"2019-10-01T21:31:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T21:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/first-frost-expected-early-thursday-in-sw-colorado\/"},"modified":"2019-10-01T21:31:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T21:31:34","slug":"first-frost-expected-early-thursday-in-sw-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/first-frost-expected-early-thursday-in-sw-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"First frost expected early Thursday in SW 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=36bcfe65-888c-4ad6-93f5-025ab2eb96bb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1933\" height=\"1192\" alt=\"The National Weather Service expects the first frost of the season may hit Wednesday night in Durango.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The National Weather Service expects the first frost of the season may hit Wednesday night in Durango.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Some gardens in Southwest Colorado could get nipped Wednesday night by the first frost of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The overnight low in Durango is expected to drop to 29 degrees for about two or three hours early Thursday, a freeze that will likely be felt by tomatoes and other sensitive garden plants, said Chris Cuoco, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could definitely be hard enough to damage them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures could rebound to the upper 30s and 40s on Thursday and Friday, he said. But Sunday and Monday overnight temperatures could drop again to below freezing, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of the first hard frost of the season and the general drop in overnight lows is about average for the area, Cuoco said.<\/p>\n<p>Colder temperatures should coincide with calmer winds, a change from the gusty weather that swept through the region last weekend and the first part of this week, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures in the Cortez area are expected to drop to 37 degrees. Thursday\u2019s high is expected to reach 72 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Gardeners still waiting for some vegetables to ripen can try to save their plants using plastic jugs and water, said Linley Dixon with Adobe House Farm.<\/p>\n<p>Placing plastic jugs filled with water around plants during the day can capture energy that can then help keep the plants warm overnight, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWater has this capacity to store a ton of energy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Covering the plants and water jugs overnight can help keep plants warm during lighter frosts, she said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@durangoherald.com\">mshinn@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>expected to drop below 32 degrees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5993,5736,5735,5842],"tags":[281,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-92386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-local-news","category-news","category-weather-news","tag-agriculture","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92386","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=92386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92386"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=92386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}