 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday April 21st 2021. I'm chief meteorologist John insworth formal and motton public media We have a full moon Tuesday April 26 and with the weather getting better and spring settling in It'll be great to take some evening walks under this I had jumping to our drought conditions I don't have much to report this time because I'm from last week to this week. There really is no Perceptible change in the data. So I'm not sure if that means measurements haven't been taken or if just things are Under snow and that well, we'll keep an eye on it The same is pretty true nationally except there is some worsening of the drought up in the northern extreme northern plains And a little lessing of the drought around the Great Lakes, but not much seems to change in the West Looking at the rainfall We did get there is some beneficial moisture that came down over the last seven days You see the light greens here about a half inch to one inch in the darker greens We'll trace amounts of one of the western slopes and a nice little Dampening out in the northeast. So that's good. We'll just keep it coming All right. Well looking forward now by Thursday Morning, we have a trough coming to the west. We'll look at in just a second. We have a bit of a front I draped over the area and some precipitation some absolute precipitation on the plains in northeast just light stuff Wednesday into Thursday Nothing like we had earlier in the week what we have in the upper levels is pretty complex We have little short rave troughs embedded in this overall Western trough is our big ridge to our east and that just kind of keeps us cool and unsettled showers able to have on and just by any time With that and the fact that spring is coming I'm bringing back the severe. I'm sorry this the storm prediction centers graphic on where thunderstorms and severe weather are possible and We do have for Thursday Thursday itself a Possibility of some convection you might see here's some thunder from Fort Collins South This should say Friday. Sorry about that But we have most of the state now able to have some thunderstorms with whatever Forms down in the south Texas in Oklahoma. They're starting to see the return of a slight and marginal chance of severe weather with hail tornadoes and the like Looking at the big 10-day Our temperatures are warm enough this week that my high temperature line is not off the top of the chart We rise in the normals from 63 to 66. That's a big jump and nighttime temperatures from 35 to 37 Wednesday Thursday and Friday We have that troughiness in the west and we have an abrupt dry out and warm up for the weekend It's going to be fantastic and then next week pretty normal temperatures Pretty warm temperatures and some rain showers possible Tuesday and Thursday into Friday Will this be the last of our snow? No, we've had snow all the way into the first week of June. So that's always possible So looking at some damn why we do get that big warm up and dry out period. We get the trough replaced by this big ridge over most of the nation with the trough on the east coast and west coast So let's put this into motion take a look at the next 10 days going from Thursday into Friday you see trough after trough passing and then Friday into Saturday this ridge begins to move everything starts to shift And then the Sunday the ridge again. There's our trough Coming in for the beginning of next week and by Tuesday We have a trough again, but just higher heights so warmer temperatures And see later in the week a big ridge pushes in so expect some real warm-up next week as well Okay, looking at temperatures. There's our giant cold front hitting the Gulf Coast and spreading off into the Gulf and Atlantic we have warmth out in the west other little shot of cold air coming down and then Pushing off for Saturday and Sunday as the heat builds at normally warm temperatures and then into Monday Tuesday next week and see a cold front tries to make its way in it's not that noticeable It's not going to be a super cold shot of air at all and there's the late week heat next week With the antiprecipitation nothing big shows up You can see this little period of upslope right here and Thursday and then Friday There's showers mainly in the central mountains and in the Saturday mornings a little more shower-y-ness before they head out going into Sunday high and dry and then Monday And to Tuesday here comes our next little system. It's like seeing the western slopes Southeast corner of the state before becoming a big line of thunderstorms way out not planes And then later in the week or more strong in this in the west so no big headline news Stock on something on May 1st there, but we'll see so the next two days for Wednesday into Wednesday into Friday We maybe get a coating to maybe an inch of snow a little bit more around Boulder and Denver a little bit in the foothills It's not a lot For precipitation we get a trace to a quarter of an inch worth of moisture Over the next 10 days So much edit these slides We have a coating to maybe an inch we just don't pick up much more because of the temperatures But persuasions have been pretty good. We got a quarter to Half-inch of moisture with one to two inch amounts in northern mountains and stretching down on the western slope So great moisture for parts of the state that need it We could still take a lot more moisture down the four corners area and off in the southeast plains, but eventually So over the next week we start cold on Wednesday Then morning snow showers on Thursday. We have our chance of thunderstorms from Thursday night to Friday We dry out warm-up significantly on weekend in the Monday, and then we start to see that next system move in on Tuesday So for frequent weather updates, I do updates whenever they need it Check out longmontleader.com and you get more local longmont news as well This has been chief meteorologist John Insworth. Keep looking up