 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday October 25th 2023 This is Chief Neal of just John and it's worth for Longmont public media. I'm on vacation this week so I'm taking a little easier and Putting all the graphics up this time, but we have a big snowstorm coming our first It really looks like it's materializing so we need to talk about that So it's gonna be a little different than other times Gonna switch over to this Here's our per air pattern. So right now. We have the big ridge There's going south and north over us and then back south again. So it's just like a mountain over there That's what's been keeping us really warm and dry I kind of let the smoke build up and stuff like that you put this into motion And this is going back to Monday. We had a storm past south of us on Monday And then today Wednesday that's past and this goes far north of us And then this big trough connecting the two jet streams goes all the way down to the desert Southwest crosses over the weekend and leaves. Here comes the ridge back again But I think cooler temperatures are still coming in and next weekend another trough starts approaching the states We might have a couple weekend storms here So looking at temperatures and how unusual they are So this is departure from normal at the basically surface of two meters up Putting this into motion from Monday Tuesday. You can see the colder coming down, but it didn't get very far. Here's Wednesday That's in Wyoming then Thursday Friday It spreads down. I can't get over the mountains at first very cold air going through the end of the weekend in the beginning of next week And then the warmth in the west starts to kind of take over as the cold goes down into the south and Southeast parts of the nation Let's take a look at the actual temperatures at the surface. This red line in the beginning of the blue is freezing So let's see how long it takes for freezing temperatures to get down here And see they are pushing down through Montana on Wednesday Thursday and to Friday freezing temperatures at night and then Saturday Sunday it really invades those 20s 30s in the daytime and You need that kind of temperature for snow. So it looks like we just might be in good shape. So let's take a look at this actual snow This is going back. This is actually starting today. This is Wednesday And see a storm hits the northern mountains Wednesday night to Thursday, then there's our storm right there for the weekend and Becoming just a normal cold front down the deep south We dry out Let's take a look at this next storm. So it was next weekend You had the ripple go by and there's a little snow in the mountains. Yeah, let's brief hit a snow, right? That's all week away. So anything could happen So this is weather 52 80s I recommend you check out their site to the great forecasting going on over there and you can see yellow boundary is about five inches or more and it's Hidden northern central mountains and in the south was pretty well We are like the one to two inch area along I-25 the darker blue is three to four inches So just a little west of the interstate Looking at the GFS at whether we're 52 80. You can see about a half inch of moisture going up to almost Loving Dr. Greeley kind of them more as you get into the central part of the state some significant water over there Take a look at the snow amounts the GFS puts us in the it's about three inch area up to four columns four or five down here on a long amount to six Yeah, eight inches closer bolder than north west side of Denver, so Still we got some time for this to really come into focus. I will keep putting the Canadian and the GFS and the Nam the different snow totals and eventually the TV station And where the 50 to 80 will be coming out with their forecast and I'll try to round it all up There's the weekend approaches, so let's take a look at this next week. This is based on See if I can magnify that a little bit this is Where their undergrounds 10-day graphical forecast and you see we're in 60s now For the weekend highs in the 30s Sunday is very cold and morning snow They have 3.1 inches for long long and so you can see the snow kind of starts in the early hours of Saturday Peaks throughout Saturday afternoon evening and begins to taper off in the early hours of Sunday a good classic 24-hour upslope Colorado snow All right, so I was a little different, but this has been chief me. I'll just join us worth Hoping you keep looking up