 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday February 1st. Welcome to February 2023. I'm chief meteorologist John Hemsworth at Longmont Public Media. Sunday February 5th will be our full moon. It's going to be pretty cool and spooky out there shining on whatever snow is left, but probably will be a lot of snow left. Sun is very quiet on the side right now. Very tiny little spots and very little activity. Looking at drought, we have drought-free conditions for most of the western half, and things are slightly improving out on the eastern plains with some more snow. It's hit out there nationally. The west gets a little better, so there's parts of the Ohio Valley and Mississippi Valley. So good news, just keep the moisture coming in across the nation. Looking at snow, it's also a really good shape. I've had three times of my crude animation here, and I thought I could stop at the right spot. Up to February 1st, so this is really current data. We have 131% of normal. It's up in this area. The highest it's ever been is this purple. Go get the snow. We had Saturday and Sunday. Didn't earn me a snow day, unfortunately. But it was about an inch, inch and a half, or a long month. About an inch to three across Boulder. Lots of variation there. And the next day we got another third of an inch in brutally cold temperature. It was very fluffy, very little moisture in it. And about a half to three quarters of an inch. There's an inch there in Boulder. For water content, there wasn't much water content in the storm. The mountains got hit really well again. The mountains, snowpackage is just fantastic. If you look at some of these basins here, I bet they're over 200% now. I'll have to try to remember to do that next week. For severe weather, there's actually thunder sleet and thunder freezing rain occurring down in Texas. It is a ice fest down there. Slight risk in the southern states. Stuff moving across Florida. Very quiet. There's the region of freezing rain. It's mammoth. So I expect lots of power outages and difficult stuff like that. Rain on the southern edge where it's finally warm enough. Going to Thursday, the freezing rain just keeps on going. And then Friday it finally clears out and they can start to chip their way out. Not much smoke at all. Great news. Just follow good news this time. Normal temperatures going from 44 to 45 out of the way. That's slipped it down there. But it should be the end of the line. And something to 18 at night. So we're seeing the warm-up. Commentologically beginning. Nothing really visible until seventh and the tenth. Right now this is the tropical moisture coming in over the very, very cold air. Stuff that we just have been dealing with. And just generating ice, ice, ice down there. We have clear skies here. Modern amount of moisture in the atmosphere. It's giving us some clouds. Making that comet difficult to see. And I did catch it in binoculars to see two nights ago, I think. So the next notable storms at all. We did have a really nice one in the models for Sunday and Monday. I'm sorry, Monday into Tuesday. That sweep that could have given us a Tuesday snow day. But it's completely or almost completely faded out. So the next one is Wednesday, Thursday. More than a week from now. You can see it's kind of a Southern and Eastern Colorado storm. But that far away, this storm of a storm, anything's possible. So we might still have a mid to late week storm to deal with there. And then we have a trough coming down as that pulls up just about day and a half later. And this one brings cold air. And this is the first shot of cold air after the current one departs in just so much day from recording. So next Friday evening we get cool again. And wide area of snow. We'll see this in the animation. Could give us light snow for a couple of days. So here we go. Away goes the trough. We get a ridge building back and we warm up very quickly. By the end of the week. There's Saturday and another ridge coming in. It's Sunday. So very nice weekend. Some melting. Finally we'll be going on. Then we go on to Monday. That was going to be Monday's storm. And it did what the other one did a week and a half ago. It's going south. In New Mexico, we're going to handle and then find and kick some stuff off south east of us. Then there's the shot for the second storm on Friday. And then we go back to ridging beyond that. And so take a look at this really cold air that's been sitting on us for a few days. There's another shot coming out of Canada. But it's missing us entirely and going for Lingling in the Great Lakes. And we warm up a lot of lots of all those rides. They're above normal temperatures for that location on the earth. And we just stay warm. The whole nation warms up. Even Texas will get to do some melting. We see little purples in the mountains of Wyoming and Colorado. With a big thick snowpack. All shot of cold as that first storm comes in. And the second one brings down some more cold. It's yeah, it's pretty chilly. It's not what we just had. It's down there. And it kind of sloshes away. So there's the pink and freezing rain widespread freezing rain. It pulls out on Friday. Texas, we are high and dry through the weekend. Watch the next storm come into the Pacific Northwest. And then on Monday, nothing really happening in the west at all. Just little little pockets of precipitation here and there. And then by Tuesday, Wednesday, that low starts to tighten up. You get a hold of some moisture. And it just misses the I-25 corridor. Then the next shot of cold air comes in. And there's a lot of patchy snow for a couple of days. But again, a week and a half away, a week away. Anything can change that. The next five days, really dry, tiny, tiny amounts of snow in the mountains. Over the next 10 days, there's a lot of southeast precipitation and southeast snow. It's very impressive, 10 and 12 inches of snow. This is great for the farmers. So we warm up to normal, 48, 47, 46 or so either side of the weekend. So we have this tiny chance of snow on Monday. I'm giving it 20%, not too excited about it. Look big five, six days ago, and now it's nothing. We are beginning of a new month. So here's the National Weather Service forecast. Equal chances of above or below normal temperatures, cold stuff to the north. Warm out east and equal chances for wet versus dry. Dry in the southern, tier of states and wet in the north. Long wet leader, Broomfield leader, or frequently weather updates in local news. It's great. Check it out. This has been chief meteorologist John Insworth. Keep looking up.