 Here's the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, December 6, 2023. This is Chief Meteorologist John, and it's worth for Longmont Public Media. Got a new moon coming up on Tuesday, the 12th. Well, that's almost halfway through the month. Christmas is coming. A bunch of sunspots are aiming directly at Earth right now, and there's been sightings of Aurora all over the Earth. So this is a very active time for space weather. Take a look at drought. This is last week's, and as of Wednesday and early afternoon, they still hadn't given us the updated map, so I don't have anything new to show. Sorry. Smoke pretty much clears a little bit of something down in Arizona, some smoke sources in the deep south and western Canada, but not much going on. Take a look at the snowpack animation. Of course, we were way below 5% of normal and scraping along there. And then just here in the last week, we had a lot of western slope and high mountain snows. I think I heard 42 inches and rabbit ears pass, something like that. So, yeah, we didn't get much of anything but wind on the lower elevations with the rockies coated in cloud and it just did snow a lot up there. That does take us up to 85% of normal. At this time of the season, it's easy to catch up. Up here, not so much. There's the liquid equivalent of what fell. We have one inch amounts, even two inch amounts of precipitation up in this area. For convection, Wednesday, Thursday. Friday is a little bit in eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas, Missouri. Looking at the surface map for Wednesday. Thursday, the snow is coming into the northeast, sorry, northwest mountains. And then we have some snow and heavy snow possible. This is fading out quickly. You'll see just in one day that this has changed a lot. So from 44 down to 42 is our normal high. So being close to 60 was pretty crazy over the last couple of days. 18 to 17 is our normal low. And I think that's about the lowest our normal low goes. I will have to look ahead a month and see if it dips a little bit more. The memory serves as that could be it. Here's our precipitation for Friday. And a scattering of something mid-week next week that certainly isn't coming in. Because the temperatures go down and hang much more than normal area for the week ahead. Here's very dry air across New Mexico and Utah and southern Colorado. But you can see some moisture is starting to come in from the Pacific over the top. So Friday noon, we have this trough approaching. We have a band of snow coming through, but it's kind of diminishing as it goes. So let's take a look at some of the maps. Not all of these are going to be very useful, but there goes the Friday. There was a Friday dig through. Just kind of get them together really quickly and it's out. So it's just hard to get moisture in not a very long period of upslope at all. Here we have kind of Northwest flow going over the region. Something digs down in the deep south and goes through Sonora and northern Mexico. Ridge going over so we could warm up then. And another one coming in on the 14th, 15th. And then our ridge comes right back after. But you can see things are getting more active. So that's encouraging. Here's the tremendously above normal temperatures, especially on the eastern side of the continental divide. A little bit of snow packed making it cold up there. And Friday, a bit of a cold front comes down. It's spreading down into Gulf of Mexico, across Texas. There's our new snow making colder temperatures, but we warm up until another cold front comes in on the 12th. Kind of lingers on the eastern side of the mountains and then moves away. So for the 14th, 15th, kind of looking for that next storm. But I don't see it necessarily there. I won't show much of this, but there is this plume of moisture coming over the top. We saw in the satellite image. And for Friday, there's some moisture just around momentarily. You can see it's trying to get pulled in, but the load just moves away and it's all replaced by dry air. Dew points to the surface, very low. Going to Thursday, Friday, you see it moisten up a little bit. There's some 20s coming in. That's a little better. And then super dry air comes in and everything is done on Saturday. So let's take a look out for the full run of this to see what the storms look like. Going into Friday, there's a snow in the northwest. A little bang comes through, a little period of upslope. It goes into southern Colorado and it's away. There's some severe weather from it out there. There's a little more upslope or mountain snows. And into Monday, Tuesday, you can see the cold air settling down. Reds or blues are freezing. 14th, 15th, here comes the system. But what's it going to do? Not much. So this is a map made yesterday. It hasn't been updated yet today at weather 5280. The forecasters there are fantastic. You can see they have this one, two, three, third shading. About two to three inches along I-25 right west of Boulder. You jump to the four to six area, but Boulder is in the three to four area. This looks like it's been cut kind of by half today. I'm kind of expecting them to update this, but we'll see. Because here's what the next three days looks like on the GFS. There's basically a coating of snow up to maybe one inch in Longmont. And then maybe two, three inches on Boulder. A little heavier in the foothills and going down west side Denver. The Palmer divide and above Colorado Springs. But yeah, it's looking like not much. In fact, four columns, no snow at all. And if you look at the North American model, it's zero all the way down to Boulder. And there's a little more coating there, a little bit out by Lyman. Very different map, but very low snow. So the next five days might get a little bit of moisture. The next five days, a little bit of snow. The next 10 days, not much changes. It's very much the same map. A little more snow in the mountains. So fifties and sixties going to Thursday drops to freezing or close to freezing Friday. Does stay above freezing in the daytime temperatures on Saturday, then up to forties and thirties. That little chance of something Tuesday, but it doesn't look like much either. I forgot to do the December outlook last week. So here is what the Weather Service is saying that most of the nation has above normal chances of above normal temperatures. This is a weird way to communicate stuff. Of equal chances of above or below normal precipitation. Far way to the Northwest and Southeast could be wet. So check out Longmont Leader for free weather updates. I'll put the still fall round up there for this Friday storm. I was really hoping yesterday we had totals eight inches, 10 inches around Longmont in some of the models. The GFS never jumped on that and neither did the weather underground model. But some are going crazy, including the NAM, which normally doesn't. And NAM has gone from six to eight inches to zero. So it's whiplash. So this is Chief Mirologist John Insworth urging you to keep looking up.