{"id":36467,"date":"2019-11-30T13:11:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T20:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=61834"},"modified":"2019-11-30T13:11:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T20:11:57","slug":"high-winds-blowing-snow-continue-saturday-in-grand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/high-winds-blowing-snow-continue-saturday-in-grand\/","title":{"rendered":"High winds, blowing snow continue Saturday in Grand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hazardous weather outlook continues through Saturday<br \/>\nafternoon for Grand County including a high wind warning.<\/p>\n<p>Strong winds will continue through Saturday afternoon with peak wind gusts from 50-70 mph according to the National Weather Service. Ground blizzards from blowing and drifting snow are likely in exposed areas.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters warn that high profile vehicles will be in<br \/>\ndanger of blowing over, especially along north-south oriented roads.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service recommends those with travel plans Saturday alter or delay them. Conditions may result in road closures; go to <a href=\"https:\/\/cotrip.org\/home.htm\">COTrip.org<\/a> or dial 511 for updated road information.<\/p>\n<p>Highway 40 near Granby closed for almost an hour due to the weather, but reopened at 1:40 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGrandCountyOEM%2Fposts%2F2898302680189656&amp;width=500\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" width=\"500\" height=\"534\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>Areas of the county have seen 1-8 inches of snow in the last<br \/>\n24 hours. Additional snow accumulation of 2-5 inches is possible through late Saturday<br \/>\nafternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Winter Park has accumulated 5 inches on the mountain in the<br \/>\nlast 24 hours and expects another 2 inches Saturday, according to OpenSnow.com<\/p>\n<p>The weather will warm up and dry out Sunday and Monday,<br \/>\nforecasters say.<\/p>\n<p>Some light snow is expected over the mountains Monday night<br \/>\ninto Tuesday. Another weak system could bring light snow to the mountains<br \/>\nWednesday into Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures are expected to remain around seasonal normals<br \/>\nthrough the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hazardous weather outlook continues through Saturday afternoon for Grand County including a high wind warning. Strong winds will continue through Saturday afternoon with peak wind gusts from 50-70 mph according to the National Weather Service. Ground blizzards from blowing and drifting snow are likely in exposed areas. Forecasters warn that high profile vehicles will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 12:49:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}