{"id":2442758,"date":"2019-04-09T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-snowmass-fall-into-winter-storm-warning-for-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T00:48:00","slug":"aspen-snowmass-fall-into-winter-storm-warning-for-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-snowmass-fall-into-winter-storm-warning-for-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen, Snowmass fall into winter storm warning for Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.0618556701031\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-303810-364\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/snow-totals-april-11-150x150.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/snow-totals-april-11.png\" data-sub-html=\"National Weather Service | Snow totals through April 11, 2019, according to the NWS.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/snow-totals-april-11.png\" alt=\"Snow totals through April 11, 2019, according to the NWS.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Snow totals through April 11, 2019, according to the NWS.<\/strong><br \/>National Weather Service<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-09-at-6.31.08-PM-150x150.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-09-at-6.31.08-PM.png\" data-sub-html=\"National Weather Service | Warnings and watches for western Colorado through April 11.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-09-at-6.31.08-PM.png\" alt=\"Warnings and watches for western Colorado through April 11.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Warnings and watches for western Colorado through April 11.<\/strong><br \/>National Weather Service<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-snowmass-fall-into-winter-storm-warning-for-wednesday\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-snowmass-fall-into-winter-storm-warning-for-wednesday\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A winter storm warning is in effect for Aspen, Snowmass Village and the Elk Mountains starting early Wednesday morning and lasting until Thursday as a strong Pacific storm system moves through the West, the National Weather Service said Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The warning calls for snow accumulations above 7,500 feet of \u201c8 to 16 inches with locally higher amounts expected. Winds gusting as high as 50 mph.\u201d The warning, which lasts until 9 a.m. Thursday, covers most of the northern and central Colorado mountains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">There also are high wind warnings in parts of western Colorado and a blizzard warning for eastern Colorado toward Kansas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Around the Roaring Fork Valley, winds are expected to pick up late Tuesday night, and the rain is expected to turn to snow Wednesday morning as the temperatures drop. The high Wednesday in Aspen is forecast for 38 degrees and Thursday 33 degrees. Wednesday and Thursday nights the lows are expected to drop into the teens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">According to the NWS outlook from the Grand Junction office, the unsettled pattern will last into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cExpect snow in the mountains and high valleys with rain in the lower elevations. Significant snow accumulations (are) favoring the northern and central mountains,\u201d the NWS predicts. \u201cUnsettled weather continues through the weekend as a couple more weaker systems drop in from the northwest, with scattered showers and thunderstorms possible from time to time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-snowmass-fall-into-winter-storm-warning-for-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow totals through April 11, 2019, according to the NWS.National Weather Service Warnings and watches for western Colorado through April 11.National Weather Service Show CaptionsHide Captions A winter storm warning is in effect for Aspen, Snowmass Village and the Elk Mountains starting early Wednesday morning and lasting until Thursday as a strong Pacific storm system [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 01:56:34","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}