Durango is finally getting a break after a period of sweltering temperatures this weekend and early next week.
Tom Renwick, senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, said Durango’s high is usually around 85 degrees during this time of year. Saturday has the potential to get up to 82 degrees in town, but it was hovering around 73 degrees in the early afternoon.
Renwick said a high of 74 degrees is expected on Sunday and 71 degrees on Monday, warming up toward the middle of the week and hitting 84 degrees by Thursday.
“What we’ve got going on is there’s a fairly large trough sort of draped all the way from North Dakota all the way down through Colorado into Arizona,” he said.
The weather should stay consistent through the weekend as the clouds “kind of want to hang around,” he said, with chances for precipitation increasing for the San Juan Mountains as the week continues – not monsoons, just unsettled moisture coming up from the south.
The highest chance of precipitation in Durango comes on Tuesday afternoon and evening, with a 60% chance of showers.
“If you look over the mountains on Monday, you’ll probably see some stuff over the higher elevations,” Renwick said. “For the rest of the week, it looks like isolated or scattered showers each day.”
The low temperatures this week come after a some scorching temperatures earlier this month in which the temperature at Durango-La Plata County Airport broke the record six days in a row June 13 to 18. Renwick said the hottest temperatures came on June 15 and 16 at 97 degrees and June 17 at 98 degrees.
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