{"id":93345,"date":"2019-06-21T16:36:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/summer-arrives-with-snow-forecast-for-colorado-mountains\/"},"modified":"2019-06-21T16:36:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:36:31","slug":"summer-arrives-with-snow-forecast-for-colorado-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/summer-arrives-with-snow-forecast-for-colorado-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer arrives with snow forecast for Colorado 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=1eea5dbb-24d6-4e27-9546-ddefa9ab5aea&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1038\" alt=\"Snow is in the forecast this weekend in the high country of the San Juan Mountains.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Snow is in the forecast this weekend in the high country of the San Juan Mountains.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>It\u2019s the first day of summer, and snow \u2013 yes, snow \u2013 is in the forecast for this weekend in the high country of the San Juan Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Walter, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, said a storm system is moving into Southwest Colorado on Saturday that will linger in the mountains north of Durango until Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>During that time, anywhere from 1 to 4 inches of snow could fall at elevations above 8,700 feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t seem like much, but it\u2019s also the first day of summer,\u201d Walter said. \u201cSo it is a lot for this time of year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures are expected to drop throughout the region this weekend. In Silverton, the daytime high Saturday and Sunday is expected to hover around 50 degrees, and the overnight low, about 30 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of snowfall, Walter said, will depend on how temperature and available moisture in the atmosphere line up.<\/p>\n<p>In Durango, the chance of rain persists throughout the weekend. Daytime highs are expected to be around 70 degrees, while overnight lows should dip to the mid-30s. The NWS is calling for a return to hot and dry conditions next week.<\/p>\n<p>Freddie Canfield, a weather observer for the NWS who writes a weekly weather column in the <em>Silverton Standard &amp; the Miner<\/em>, said snowfall is not all that unusual during summer in the town, which sits at an elevation of 9,318 feet.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Canfield said he\u2019s seen it snow during every month of the year in the 35 years he has lived in Silverton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack in the early \u201990s, on the third day of July, there was a significant snowstorm that sent flatlanders screaming,\u201d he said. \u201cThey broke into a structure here in town that had a cold-fired stove. It got wild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canfield, too, said this weekend\u2019s snow is going to depend on how cold temperatures and moisture align. Still, he hasn\u2019t put his winter clothes away just yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t doubt it at all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Weather Service calling for 1 to 4 inches of accumulation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5737,5736,5735,5967,6014],"tags":[28,327,1164],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-93345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-local-news","category-news","category-silverton","category-snow","tag-headlines","tag-silverton","tag-snow"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93345","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=93345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93345"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=93345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}