{"id":20529,"date":"2019-12-12T13:41:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T20:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=62007"},"modified":"2019-12-12T13:41:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T20:41:39","slug":"winter-storm-to-continue-through-sunday-up-to-2-feet-of-snow-possible-in-grand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/winter-storm-to-continue-through-sunday-up-to-2-feet-of-snow-possible-in-grand\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter storm to continue through Sunday; up to 2 feet of snow possible in Grand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/11\/DSC_0169-1024x681.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Grand County is seeing a winter storm earlier than expected and it could continue snowing for the next three days.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for the mountains early Thursday morning that will last until 5 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the county are also under a winter storm warning until early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Snowfall, which has already begun in Grand County, is expected to continue through Sunday afternoon. Rates will vary from less than an inch up to 2 inches per hour at times.<\/p>\n<p>The weather service also predicts periods of gusty winds that will create blowing and drifting snow with poor visibility.<\/p>\n<p>Accumulation by Friday afternoon could reach 12 to 18 inches in some areas. The weather service predicts additional accumulations of another foot or more over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a slight decrease in snowfall Friday afternoon and evening, but a second wave of moisture is expected Saturday running into Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Travel through the mountains will be difficult this weekend. Drivers should prepare for difficult roads and check COTrip.org for the latest conditions.<\/p>\n<p>OpenSnow meteorologist Joel Grantz said in his Thursday Winter Park Resort <a href=\"https:\/\/opensnow.com\/dailysnow\/winterpark\">snow update<\/a> that the storm started earlier than expected, with a few snowflakes starting to fall Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>He predicted 6-12 inches on the mountain by today. Friday night through Saturday midday Grantz predicts at least 5-10 inches of additional accumulation at Winter Park to make for another good powder day.<\/p>\n<p>Grantz said to look for lighter snow showers and colder temperatures Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/winter-storm-to-continue-through-sunday-up-to-2-feet-of-snow-possible-in-grand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand County is seeing a winter storm earlier than expected and it could continue snowing for the next three days. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for the mountains early Thursday morning that will last until 5 a.m. Sunday. Parts of the county are also under a winter storm warning until early [&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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 12:24:22","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":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}