 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday March 29th 2023 This is chief me all just John is worth for a long month public media. We've got a full moon in April 5th I'll be beautiful mid week next week Sunspots have been very active. So have the northern lights. They've been photographed all the way down to Not why but Florida. We could have easily seen them here in Colorado that night except that was one of our snowing nights Drought that was at its worst. Like I said last week November 25th Yeah, 2020 and now it is that much better and just a little worsening of the drought here in Larimer County, but we just got a bunch of precipitation with the snow at the beginning of the week We'll talk about that. So that should push that back again. A little lessening of the drought in Oregon and a little worsening on the plains here lots of drought relief across the nation The snowpack is incredible and this I believe counts the Monday snow Sunday Monday snow Guys it goes shooting up that close for this date. It's almost a record high amount of snow It's a hundred and basically a hundred and forty percent above normal statewide. Some basins are better than others Looking at the overall snow mount up to Monday morning at seven and an additional inch or two fell across most of these Same areas, so it's a little higher, but you see here areas 6.7 to 10 10 to 11 in here Around Longmont We have the two to sixes and one little orange dot there for in the 6.7 to 9.9 We can zoom in and see 6.8 there in northern Longmont. I think that's on 66 or a little bit North of there, but yeah for the most part really surprised healthy snow a belt of Convergence set up right through here. The low was pushing moisture in and we had winds from the Southwest or Northwest I think and Just collided there and kept going much stronger than almost anybody got a few models come into that near that area But not that pattern Balder did much less in the two inch area Modern moisture for this last week was really favored the mountains of northern Colorado With widespread half inch to inch amounts of liquid Smoke not much talk about with the West being so moist just isn't much of a problem there Welcome to the severe weather animation returning we start in late March here and watch it the normal region of highest probability of severe weather Migrate throughout the spring and into the early summer so that's where we expect the highest area Looking at Wednesday quiet in that area a few thunderstorms in the West with another storm coming in yet another I've seen most of the reservoirs are Topping now in California. So even late that has been dry fight 47 years is filling up again We get the marginal Risk tomorrow in that area and then a very major severe weather event for see the ones that Thursday Fridays or Friday the Ohio Valley Tennessee all the way through here the Mississippi is you don't see a lot of Severe weather a lot of tomatoes. So bad news out there Look at the Wednesday surface forecast quiet in Colorado some snow precipitation out West Going to Thursday. There's a little system coming with a chance of showers. I'm not giving it much We do have lots of wind and dry conditions, so we will have a red flag fire danger basically Denver and south into the east this doesn't really cover where the red flag is set up And then for Friday in mountain snows again, but dry on the plains Again our normals 58 to 60 is the climb of the normal high temperature 30 to 31 almost up to freezing for Expected low. Here's our Thursday Friday tiny chance of showers and then a more significant longer lasting system for Tuesday Wednesday into maybe Thursday next week So that'll be interesting to see what we get out of it. These are getting warmer So you've got to get cold air and moisture to get a good snow storm now In the water vapor satellite loop, you can see the low out west a jet-stream tropical moisture coming up in and like that See the ridge here and then going up to the ridge beyond and For Thursday, but pretty much that same pattern that Trough out there migrates in for us. Maybe giving us some lift Moisture most for the mountains again. They got the ridge heading out and for precipitation It's a western slopes area. Just keep getting snow more for California For Tuesdays our next big event a much larger slower moving Kind of cut-off trough. We'll see how cut-off it gets a cut-off lows travel more slowly And lines are here close to the edge of the jet stream winds are strong So it was actually a frame before and after this we'll see it in the animation But this is a pretty long and pretty healthy snow Okay, so let's do that. Let's put it in motion. Here comes the first trough For end of Friday you zip it on by ridge comes in for the weekend giving us very warm temperatures It's gonna be a beautiful weekend again. We're back to a nice weekend pattern Sunday into Monday Zonal flow west to east and that thing starts to carve in and cut off There and Tuesday Wednesday, and then it's finally passed us Little peace gets left behind in the southwest probably give them some showers. I don't think it's gonna give us much Big ridge in the west this big a ridge in the west is going to give the California Break or it may get some time without precipitation happening there So we are warm for the short term and the soul little system comes through cold front right there Friday Doesn't last long warmth builds in quickly for the weekend Above normal temperatures are red. We had cold air lurking north of us And there's a little cold front on Monday, but it gets pushed back watered out than a stronger push comes down For midweek into the end of next week. It'd be quite cold again. We can't precipitation this first system for Thursday Friday Mainly hits the mountains stuff reforms to our northeast in a way basically Nebraska a high and dry for the weekend Zonal flow at this time And you can see the boundary that cold air you got snow and then a low really cranks up here was one two three Three periods of six hours in length where snow is hanging out over northern Colorado There's that little system that goes to Arizona the south that should stay pretty far away from us So for the next five days should remain dry on the plains More mountain precipitation looking at snow up to a foot here in places and then very little out on the plains a spot or two Over the next 10 days We do get some moisture on the plains and it might be a temperature thing that we don't get a huge amount of snow But the gradient is very sharp coming in close to the mountains So we are coming from the 40s jump to the 60s on Thursday a little cold front on Friday Tiny chance of showers giving it 15% very warm weekend. We might break 70 as possible on Sunday We'll see and then we still to cool down Monday, and then our rain into possible snow pretty good chance on Tuesday a New month starts so the not so reliable No forecast gives the south and the east lots of heat and below normal temperatures in the west equal chance of It was here for precipitation finally dry in the southwest if it's true equal chances for us and like that I'm taking a look at the next 10 days of our this is 14 days Of snow in the west and rather than 40 50 60 or 100 inches I got to see a foot and 22 inches and 20 inches in there 17 inches down here So yeah, it's still snowing and the mountains are still piling up and Houses are being buried and shops are being buried, but that's um Or it is Longmont leader Broomfield leader for frequent weather updates This has been chief meter oldest John minutes worth. Keep looking out