{"id":1317393,"date":"2019-12-24T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=992006"},"modified":"2019-12-26T07:58:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T14:58:13","slug":"will-glenwood-springs-see-another-white-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/will-glenwood-springs-see-another-white-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Glenwood Springs see another White Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/12\/A5SnowDay-gpi-122518-2-6.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/12\/A5SnowDay-gpi-122518-2-6.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/12\/A5SnowDay-gpi-122518-2-6-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/12\/A5SnowDay-gpi-122518-2-6-325x191.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>Grand Avenue on Christmas Eve in Glenwood Springs last year.<\/strong><br \/><em>Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Glenwood Springs has experienced a \u201cwhite Christmas\u201d three times in the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the forecast, that trend will likely continue this Christmas, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like possible accumulation of up to 2 inches by Christmas morning,\u201d Dan Cuevan, National Weather Service technician, said. \u201cSnow showers continuing through the day Wednesday. Any additional accumulation would be light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Technically, snow does not need to fall on Dec. 25 for a white Christmas to occur.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the National Weather Service defines a white Christmas as \u201chaving one inch or more of snow on the ground on Christmas morning,\u201d regardless of when it fell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAST CHRISTMAS DAY WEATHER IN GLENWOOD SPRINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2016: High temperature of 31 degrees with a low of 25 degrees. No snow was on the ground Christmas morning but about one inch fell throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>2017: High temperature of 32 degrees with a low of 20 degrees. No snow was on the ground Christmas morning but about one inch fell throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>2018: High temperature of 39 degrees with a low of 19 degrees. Four inches of snow was already on the ground Christmas morning. An additional inch fell throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RECORD HIGHS AND LOWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the National Weather Service in Grand Junction since 1989 Glenwood Springs experienced its coldest Christmas in 1990 when the temperature dipped to -18 degrees. Additionally, the warmest Christmas came in 2001 with a high temperature of 49 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>While nothing in this year\u2019s Christmas Day forecast appears \u201crecord breaking,\u201d another White Christmas seems very likely for Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:mabennett@postindependent.com\">mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/will-glenwood-springs-see-another-white-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Avenue on Christmas Eve in Glenwood Springs last year.Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent Glenwood Springs has experienced a \u201cwhite Christmas\u201d three times in the last three years. According to the forecast, that trend will likely continue this Christmas, too. \u201cIt looks like possible accumulation of up to 2 inches by Christmas morning,\u201d Dan Cuevan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1317393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 19:06:00","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317416,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317393\/revisions\/1317416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}