 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday March 17th 2021 I'm Chief Meteorologist John Enzworth for a Longmont public media We start out with the first day of spring Sunday for and a first quarter moon looking pretty in the evening sky Nice to be thinking spring while we are surrounded by so much snow Taking looking at drought real quick There was not much to say because from last week to this week the map really doesn't change at all But with colossal amounts of water now slowly Seeping into the soil you're really going to see this change nationally the same thing maybe up in the Intermountain West and Northern Mountains and out on the edge of the plains We do see a little bit of change from last week to this but not too significant Let's take a look at the snow. Oh boy the amounts are Impressive now remember the GFS was very crazy about Larimer County and Boulder County with 30 40 50 inches of snow were forecasted and When you take a look at how warm the snow was how much compaction occurred how much melting probably occurred the Real true 10 to 1 snow to rainfall depth Might have been even more significant some that's this is this is an impressive storm Looking at Red Feather Lakes 31 inches. We have 33 36 on the west side of four Collins. We have 20 11 28 22 down around the city We're down in Estes Park Some teens and 22 inch report near birth of 35 inches Down at Long Mock. We have some teens just west of town and then 18 19 21 20 and 20 inches right in town. It's very amazing amount of snow Looking at Boulder. They kind of got less than Most which is unusual for them winds weren't just right for some of the snow hits to get them But they're in the 10 12 15 16 area Up at the mountains here got 20s. You got a 40 inch down here In the foothills some 27 inch amounts looking at the city crippling snow here widespread two feet of snow across much of the City di a got 27.1 making it the fourth snowiest storm on record That's impressive because the storm was about a day late people were wondering if it would even crack the top 10 Talking about how it had to get above 20 inches. I think to make it into the top 10 They did that clearly Looking at graphical representation of the snow depth Even more impressive totals up here in Wyoming probably 30 35 maybe higher but uh Northern mountains down across Larimer and Boulder Denver and out in the plains now the gfs had lots of snow in the mountains and foothills and nothing on the Plains it just had rain and the north america model had snow out there and not as much impressive stuff in the mountains So if you took their Their respective impressive forecast and added it you would have gotten a good picture of the storm Okay at the actual liquid equivalent Yellows are two inches or more and then you get up to the oranges and we had the impressive Snowfall depth just west of four columns. You see four to five inches of actual liquid coming down The dark greens are over an inch and a half. So that's a lot of water for the stage. This will really help with soil conditions Going to this week. We have a follow-on little storm coming through it's kind of split energy here with Track a little further south going over albuquerque And not quite as good for giving the northern Front range and northeast plain snow. Uh, we don't really need more. So I guess we're okay Taking a look at wednesday morning. There's the focus of us or the southern mountains in northern new mexico and As moving on now, there's a little ripple up here in Wyoming. We're kind of in a thin spot in between By friday morning It's moving out on the plane some snow in kansas And we're just these lingering stuff in the mountains as high pressure moves in That high pressure is being driven by a big ridge that replaces that trough as it swings away quickly And we'll see some impressive warm weather this weekend Unnormal sorry got cut off go from 55 to 57 for a high and 27 to 29 we're definitely going into spring spring occurs right here The middle of the graph We have some of our warmest temperatures recently Right before the sunday cool down in the cold front and return to sun precipitation The different model runs do agree that Tuesday night and wednesday. There'll be some precipitation around And also a high agreement that's some pretty heavy stuff Comes down monday sunday night monday and then tuesday night into wednesday next week So let's put this into motion and watch this little storm roll out under the planes ridge Rowing and moving eastward pretty quickly into the weekend. This is friday morning Then going into midday friday here was saturday morning the trough is coming in By sunday it is now Swinging all the way down into southern california and passing over the state cooling us down and bringing our first shot of rain or snow Going tuesday into wednesday. It'll cut off low falls behind it with an overall trough over much of the nation And that messy little pattern that gives us a midweek Chance of precipitation as well. Let's take a look at that precipitation. Here's the beginning tuesday into wednesday It's here then gone and moving off under the planes a little bit of mountain snows and nothing Warm and dry going into the weekend And then we can see the next system coming down doesn't look too impressive until it gets a hold of little That gulf moisture and we get a little stuff down in Southern mountains southeast plains and then off it goes And by tuesday wednesday the next system is moving in Western slopes get some snow the southern mountains northern new mexico Gets the better hit as well if that stays on track Over the next five days We see maybe a trace to an inch or two As I said, maybe locally three and lucky places in northeast Colorado, but uh really it's a mountains and southern mountains type storm The next 10 days those next couple hits Really favored the mountains again. We got 16 18 maybe 20 inch peaks in there 20 25 inch Depths added to the southern mountains and out on the plains. So More moisture we'll take it Over the next seven days We have 40s rising to the 60s on the weekend. Sorry about that And then sunday we get the cold under the 40s. We don't get tremendously cool So that's why I'm saying rain snow mix Some percent chance, but not great. It's not as Certain of a storm as at this time as we had with the last Four frequent weather updates and local news. Check out longmont leader longmont leader.com This has been chief meteorologist john endsworth keep looking up