 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday February 23rd 2022 just missed the 2 22 20 22 Date just by a little bit on a Tuesday, but the news media covered a lot of that already So I'm chief meteorologist John insworth and this is for long-law public media So we have a new moon on Wednesday, March 2nd Rising and setting about the same time as the Sun Looking at our drought conditions things are a little worse in the mountains and a little less on the planes as we go from last week to this week but overall not much of a change and At least all parts of Colorado are out of the exceptional drought Looking nationally. There's a little bit of relief in the West right around Oklahoma, Texas Things get a little worse one day forward. That's our one week forward But things aren't changing much and again We have snowpack that is not yet melting and so that's not contributing to the soil moisture yet All right looking at this animation They are still putting out this graphic, but they have changed the look of the product So let's go from back in December up through January And then we got to go to this graphic. I'll just get rid of those older ones next week But you can see we pretty much level off and now we are climbing a bit. There's a lot of snow following in the western Slopes in the southwestern part of the state and we just have to wait for this storm to pass to add up the numbers We can look at the numbers in Cal in Boulder, Colorado Boulder County is Right around Longmont up to Tuesday. We had about just an inch inch and a third Some spots just under an inch Boulder got two to three Broomfield got it's just under an inch to just over an inch and Wednesday was just about the same 1.3s around Longmont Up to 2.2 But a lot of ones in Boulder and just under one inch in Broomfield and the forecast for Wednesday night Into Thursday is about another inch Looking at the liquid precipitation. So snow melt things are working really good up to Tuesday And with this once the storm passes, we're gonna get a lot more Great numbers in on the western side of Colorado so as I record on Wednesday, we have a Low very slowly tracking across the southern part of the state Bringing in little impulses of energy that are kicking off brief periods of slightly heavier snow, but the air is so cold We've had negative and single-digit positive temperatures for a few days now and there just isn't much moisture for the Impulses to act upon so we aren't getting a lot, but it is trying to look at the Mixed precipitation almost down to Phoenix. So that is some cold air So on Thursday Afternoon the main trough is pulling through this is still trough further back here in Washington, Oregon Go forward the really cold temperature is still holding in place. This is departure from normal there are 26 30 degrees below normal in the lower elevations again cold air is very dense stays close to the earth So it's not making it up into the mountains as much So they don't have temperatures as far below normal as us So it's very possible that many mountain communities are warmer Then cities along I-25 for another day For Friday, we have that low back there in Washington, Oregon coming in for just a little teeny chance of Back up of snow It's really small but in the northern mountains central mountains We might see a little bit more there might even be a little bit of a dusting out on the plains as the cold air departs and the big trough pulls away For Wednesday a little chance of convection up into Southwestern Colorado a little bit in the south and then things are completely boring nationwide Thursday and Friday For the next 10 days, we do see the temperatures rising from Expected normal temperatures rising from 48 to 51. So here comes the warm-up Look at the normal nighttime temperatures going from 20 up to 24 Our temperatures start out ridiculously below normal on Wednesday and Thursday Even Friday and then pop up back to normal and then above normal Some models were showing even 60s and more come middle late next week We have the really good chance of snow at the beginning of the forecast period on Wednesday The GFS is pretty bullish about a brief period of showers on Friday I probably won't mess up traffic much, but be aware that could happen on Our next storm then waits that was a 10-day forecast forecast and nothing else was happening So beyond that Next Sunday evening. There's a another low that approaches in the upper atmosphere We have a little cutoff bit there and a good trough and a pretty good amount of snow Coming in on Sunday may be impacting Monday morning the week after next commute and Then on its heels Wednesday another trough comes in With more snow and notice how much rain there is on the southern edge of this or Temperatures are warming things are not going to be as cold as they are in this current storm So you have a very very quiet week ahead and then a very active week after that So let's take a look at that in 10-day animation. Here comes the Friday back Lobe moving through We see the ridge Returning to the West. That's what warms us up very quickly We didn't get a lot of snow over three days of super cold air and so that should melt pretty quickly This is a sort of cutoff thing that travels south of us, but the ridge dominates Wednesday and Thursday Way above normal temperatures mid-60s are possible Going to Friday the 4th of March into the weekend and here comes that trough for the Sunday storm It's pretty vigorous. That's pretty strong Okay, I repeated so it's look at the temperatures Here's our below normal temperatures that we are currently experiencing You can see that the source of cold air is cut off up in Canada And so we just are stuck with a cold air that's in place warming up a little more each day Until the ridge starts to build and the warm air really takes over in the west These blue below normal temperatures are just where the deepest snow is So temperatures go way above normal late next week Very dry conditions for a week and then there's a hint of some more cold air on the 5th and then it comes down as a front on the 6th of March and And that backed up and started over So that's our the first of our next two storms right at the end of the loop Here goes Friday's little chance of snow and it's out of here If you see snow, you'll be lucky, but it could happen Now we've got to make our way through a long quiet week with storms moving up north of us and passing It was Tuesday And Wednesday And Thursday still nothing but warm weather up snow up in Montana and Canada Here comes Saturday and then finally a storm starts to form here below intensifies We have a pretty good chance of snow and that's all that I showed in that loop So over the next five days, we have maybe a quarter inch of precipitation I think that's really overdone Right along I-25 a little bit more in the mountains for the snow amounts It was about two to four on this map. I think that's way overdone I think one to two Wednesday night into Thursday morning is the best we can expect. We'll see Over the next ten days not much more. It's almost the exact same map So from Wednesday's Single-digit lows and Thursday and Friday single digits and almost single digits highs on Wednesday I think we did hit 11. I Had to record this light. We Jump up to the 20s and 30s 40s 50s adding almost 10 degrees every day and Tell we're almost to the 60s by the end little chance of snow on Friday night But dry and mostly cloud-free for the rest of the beginning of next week For frequent weather updates and local news check out long mark leader and Broomfield leader calm. I need to update that slide This has been chief meteorologist John insworth keep looking up