 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday February 15th 2023 I am chief meteorologist John is worth for a long month public media. I'm sorry. You need to go without a camera this week Monday February 20th is our new moon nothing to see the sun is quite active on the side Sunspots north and south of the solar equator Neat stuff to see there was a picture in the news of sunspots visible off of the Coast of San Francisco in the sunrise and you could see the sunspots of the naked eye pretty cool I'll look at drought conditions. We are a little worse here in the south, but a bunch of snow just hit the last couple days So that will reverse nationally Big relief continues in the west with severe drought all but vanishing. It's looking much nicer Taking a look at the snowpack so far this season clicking through in de february Think or more. Nope too far. So we're still riding above normal. We got another good hit on Tuesday Wednesday, so We will continue to see that stay Really good up to Wednesday a long money area got about an inch and a half of snow six to eight inches kind of peak and boulder and Thursday another inch or so came in up to Thursday morning. So yeah about two and a half inches fantastic Perceptation last seven days that storm was really centered to the south-south west of us You can see the huge amounts of water just great news for severe weather big stuff moving through the east but nothing in the west at all There was Wednesday snow moving out lots of snow and mixed freezing rain and Bad stuff up on the Great Lakes in New England and then moving off the coast smoke is Pretty good very little in the nation anywhere Our temperatures are really starting to rise on average 46 to 49 now So sooner we're gonna be expecting 50s. That looks great 19 to 21 for the Nighttime low will be riding in the upper part of that for about three or four days and it gets cold and Very unsettled next week. It's really hard to see what is gonna come the models are not agreeing at all So highlights this is Wednesday. This is the storm With the beginning of the forecast period here and see the low was down here in the four corners And we were kind of far north of it So we didn't get the bulk of it the moisture came wrapping around the low and gave Colorado and Arizona and Mexico some good snow Tuesdays next time something big comes in right after the holiday the northern branch troughs and southern cut off low and there's some snow in the mountains in northeast Colorado not much It looked like a big storm at one point, but not after that. So Next one after that is Wednesday p.m. There's a deep trough coming. We just get a lot of West Coast trough stuff and little short waves like that might ripple through and kick off stuff And it just so it's a big storm strong low pretty far north Puts dry slot kind of on this side. You can see all this dry air in here more more snows for the West Rain for the West just keeps on coming. So let's put it into motion. There goes the Wednesday Stairs the pronounced ridging that's coming in after that warming us almost a 60 or gonna see really warm temperatures By the Sunday into Monday, you can see the trough in the southwest and just general Northwest flow over us. There's a ripple that goes by there's another ripple going by Then Wednesday into Thursday this big trough digs in lots of jet stream action right over Colorado and then Ridge returns for the Week weekend after that For temperatures, we have a fair amount of cold air around right now Going into Friday You can see it's sloshing off to the southeast and except for the snowpack the West starts warming up pretty nicely Wherever the snow goes, you'll see the temperatures rise very rapid. There's that Southwest Storm with the cool air Down in northern Mexico and then a vactic air up in Canada and pouring down across Montana There's a strong cold front for us next week Just how much it's gonna do we will have to find out So looking at storms there goes Wednesday into Thursday's storm Very nice Beautiful weekend. I mean get out on a hike. Yeah, enjoy this It's just gonna be as good as you felt in quite a while Then we have the Southwest storm there on Monday the Tuesday. You can see some snow does come into the mountains Maybe push us off under the plains, but it's not a showstopper or snow day for school or anything There's a Thursday storm and yeah, snow definitely sweeps across northeast Colorado And then things get nice after that So over the next five days a little bit of moisture still coming in less than a quarter of an inch or so With that storm as possible around Boulder and Fort Collins a little bit less Going out 10 days Actually a whole near Fort Collins and not much precipitation down by 25 to Denver and Snows largely in the mountains So starting out really cold 27 and 30s and 50s and almost 60 on Monday before the storm moves in that evening giving us Chance of snow precipitation so Long Mount leader and Broomfield leader for local news and Frequent weather updates. This has been chief meteorologist John insworth Keep looking up