{"id":94273,"date":"2019-05-02T15:44:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/freeze-warning-issued-for-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2019-05-02T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T21:44:11","slug":"freeze-warning-issued-for-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/freeze-warning-issued-for-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeze warning issued for 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=daa20c38-91a0-49a2-b221-249ad33b7ab5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=daa20c38-91a0-49a2-b221-249ad33b7ab5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=daa20c38-91a0-49a2-b221-249ad33b7ab5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=daa20c38-91a0-49a2-b221-249ad33b7ab5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1933\" height=\"1192\" alt=\"Southwest Colorado faces a freeze warning overnight Friday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Southwest Colorado faces a freeze warning overnight Friday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning for 3 a.m. to 8 a.m. Friday in Western Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>In Montezuma and La Plata counties, affected towns include Cortez, Dolores, Dove Creek, Mancos, Durango and Bayfield.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures are expected to fall to 28 to 32 degrees overnight Thursday, with lowest temperatures occurring around sunrise, the weather service said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSensitive vegetation and swamp coolers will be impacted by sub-freezing temperatures,\u201d the weather service said.<\/p>\n<p>Friday and Saturday in Southwest Colorado, sunny skies are expected, with high temperatures in the lower to middle 60s and lows in the upper 30s and lower 40s.<\/p>\n<p>Sunny skies are expected Sunday and Monday, with highs near 70.<\/p>\n<p>In the north, cities affected by the freeze warning include Dinosaur, De Beque, New Castle, Mesa, Parachute, Rifle, Silt, Eagle, Edwards, Glenwood Springs and Carbondale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montezuma and La Plata counties affected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[414],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-94273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94273","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=94273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94273"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=94273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}