{"id":38412,"date":"2020-01-01T12:33:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T19:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=62337"},"modified":"2020-01-01T12:33:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T19:33:09","slug":"new-years-day-storm-coats-grand-county-hinders-travel-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/new-years-day-storm-coats-grand-county-hinders-travel-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Day storm coats Grand County, hinders travel (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script> jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $('#imageGallery-62337-142').lightSlider({ gallery:true, item:1, loop:true, thumbItem:9, slideMargin:0, enableTouch:true, enableDrag: false, currentPagerPosition:'left', onSliderLoad: function(el) { $( '.gallery-loading' ).hide(); $( '.swift-gallery' ).css( 'opacity', 1 ); \/*var maxHeight = 0, container = $(el), children = container.children(); children.each(function () { var childHeight = 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mharford@skyhinews.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/DSC_4668-1024x678.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .col --> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .row --> <\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/DSC_4657-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/DSC_4657-1024x678.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | \" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><strong><\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/DSC_4657-1024x678.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .col --> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .row --> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Snow started falling early Wednesday morning in Grand County and weather predictions say it&#8217;s likely to continue throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/new-year-to-bring-new-snow-to-grand\/\">winter weather advisory<\/a> issued for Grand County on Tuesday warned snow will continue through midnight Thursday with accumulations of four to 10 inches of snow possible.<\/p>\n<p>Around noon, the Colorado Department of Transportation closed Westbound Interstate 70 at mile marker 215, near the Eisenhower Tunnel, due to multiple wrecks. There is not an estimated reopening time.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of wind and snow prompted CDOT to issue a travel warning about the impact on visibility and road conditions.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook post by the Fraser Winter Park Police Department also warns drivers about the conditions, noting that several car wrecks occurred at the top of Berthoud Pass on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Even more snow is expected on the western edge of the county, particularly Rabbit Ears Pass, which is under a winter storm warning with predictions of up to 20 inches of snowfall by midnight Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service reported wind gusts of up to 61 mph on Berthoud Pass Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The combination of snow &amp; wind gusts to 60 mph will result in hazardous driving conditions across the mountains today, especially over high mountain passes. In addition, windy conditions will continue across the foothills &amp; adjacent plains through the afternoon. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cowx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cowx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EidIobREgY\">pic.twitter.com\/EidIobREgY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSBoulder\/status\/1212436503776956416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com Show CaptionsHide Captions Snow started falling early Wednesday morning in Grand County and weather predictions say it&#8217;s likely to [&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-38412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 19:00:16","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\/38412","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=38412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}