{"id":103376,"date":"2025-12-29T05:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/103376\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T05:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:50:14","slug":"el-paso-region-under-winter-storm-watch-for-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/103376\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso region under Winter Storm Watch for Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 The National Weather Service El Paso has issued a Winter Storm Watch for Monday, Dec. 29 for the greater El Paso region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rain showers are expected to begin late Sunday night, switching over to snow early Monday morning, according to the NWS El Paso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There is also a slight chance of sleet and\/or freezing rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">High temperatures in the El Paso region are expected to be in the mid- to low 40s on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The best locations for accumulating snow are the Sacramento Mountains and eastern Otero County, Otero Mesa and the Brokeoff Mountains and northern Hudspeth County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to NWS, the Sacramento Mountains could see from 4 to 7 inches of snow and Otero Mesa and Hudspeth County could see from 2 to 4 inches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wind gusts could reach up to 40 mph. Winds will be strongest through mountain passes and along western slopes, including the Huecos, Franklins and Floridas, NWS said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">El Paso, Las Cruces, Alamogordo and Tularosa are expected to see less than 1 inch of snow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You can expect slick travel for parts of U.S. 70, U.S. 54 and U.S. 62-180.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 The National Weather Service El Paso has issued a Winter Storm Watch for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,46898,12264,931,1971,46896,46897],"class_list":["post-103376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-region","tag-freezing-rain","tag-hudspeth-county","tag-national-weather-service","tag-otero-mesa","tag-sacramento-mountains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}