 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, August 30th 2023. I'm chief meteorologist John Nensworth for Longmont public media We have a full moon Wednesday night. This is what the media is calling the super moon It's also a blue moon being the second full moon in a month It just means that it's a little bit closer to the earth and about 15% larger. It's not that super but okay Whatever Sunspots activity. We've got some good storms over here on the right sunspots Rotating to the right Hints of other stuff coming around from the left Looking at drought. We get a little worsening of the drought down the Southwest we Be nice to get some more moisture into the state taking a look at nationwide drought It really gets a lot worse across Texas and some of the Midwest locations The West and Northwest and Arizona really don't change much We can't smoke fires are ongoing in Canada looks like a fire in California and Just a kind of a mix of smoke around there's some clear air in southern Colorado, but we still have some haze and getting some air quality alerts almost every day Looking at the last week of precipitation It's been good northern mountains even the south and southwest got some rain This is two to three inches in the yellow. So mountains are doing very well Eastern Plains got a little bit less this time, but they've been in pretty good shape. Anyways, looking at our severe weather climatology may June July August and then September these still climatologically can have severe weather. It's Frequent enough that it shows up in on this map, but it's fading nationwide as we go into the fall For actual chances of severe weather. There's this stuff with Hedalia The hurricane that hit Florida and moved up through we just have a chance of a few Convective clouds nothing big for Thursday same thing kind of Halfway out on the plains and the rest of the state and then for Friday. This is sort of a monsoon type flow Looking at nationally. We got a front up here. It's not doing much sort of reforms back here There's our better chance of Western thunderstorms in Arizona. Here's some chance of flooding rains in Arizona up to Vegas and so the new top but just a chance of convection around here There goes tropical storm of Dahlia. Let me back up. You can see it's on the coast Hurricane Think that's Franklin Then it moves out in a way Our normal temperatures are dropping very rapidly as we go into September. We should start really feeling a chill 84 to 81 is normal 54 to 50. I think it was 57 this morning There's a little chance of weekend storms, but otherwise quite dry for the next 10 days And you can see why here's a dry air Across the nation. There goes Hedalia Here's monsoon moisture not doing much yet For the big features there's Hedalia again. We have a ridge Stretching over the state. That's why we are so far above normal right now We're in the mid to upper 90s or the temperatures we're getting right now Trough passing the north isn't doing much for us By Sunday morning. Thanks for wrapping the G around We do get a trough in the west, but as we get southwest flow, and that's why we might get some more activity It's not too impressive though. At least it's west of us Okay, putting into motion take a look at this ridge. That's the big story As long as that ridge center keeps rolling around We're going to be in the heat south winds Here comes that trough this is sunday monday And it kind of scoops in and then heads up The ridge is now in the east I have a trough in the west with a hint of a new ridge Starting to form down here southern arizona And then we're back to having a ridge in the west going into the end of next week Yep, so Ridge is being persistent There it is really building over Our state for temperatures got this cold front that came down this helped pushed a dally away Keep it from going further inland. We do have the trough in the west cooling it down and in between some really Pretty extreme heat especially the northern plains We got lots of cold out here lots of hot up here and we're right in that boundary But this time even with the cold front coming down monday tuesday. It's not much. We still stay a little above normal As moisture goes this is precipitable water and it is Very dry. Here comes the On sooner moisture out west of us And it tries to get over the divide but the place he needs it most is Western slopes and southwest part of the state. So it doesn't come through until monday tuesday briefly And then we're back to dryness Looking at surface moisture I won't show this long because this is really dry 30s and 20s for surface dew points barely gets to 40s low 40s And let's not tell I think the beginning of the week that this you can see 60s out here in arizona And then some 50s kind of slipped down on monday Moisture tries to push back in there with that cool front, but it's not much All right, and as precipitation goes also not much to talk about there goes a delia Got the thunderstorms in arizona So that high could just shift a little bit further over There's western slopes getting some precipitation utah getting a lot A little bit into colorado then away. That's what that trough going by in the cool front And looks like we just dry out like how long a delia hangs around even This model run thinks it's wobbling back towards the us And another cold front it looks like it pushes it out finally Bermuda needs to keep an eye on that one could get a couple hits So the next five days we have precipitation in the west Added five more days and it's just not much more So 90s into the weekend and we finally cooled down for the beginning of next week with a sunday money better chance of showers It's um new month. So take a look at that keeping an eye on the time here Where the service had above Normal chain are above chances. I guess it's above normal. It's just weird. Yeah, it's above normal chances of above normal temperatures With the below In the northern plains. This is what actually happened 60 days of summer And it was very cool nationwide Just arizona to florida had the heat with texas making all the The records but the news that this has been a ridiculously hot summer Really not this is even this is not overly extreme and it's confined to these southern states so What they're calling for in september is heat in the west and the south And equal chances of precipitation with above normal in the southeast and above normal in the southwest The deli is heading out and probably start wandering around It's still it's a tropical storm. I got Knocked down to 65 miles an hour longmont leader brewfield leader. Check out local weather This has been chief meteorologist john insworth. Keep looking up