 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, February 16th, 2022. I'm chief meteorologist John insworth for Longmont public media kind of out of time right now, so I don't have time to put up the lights in the camera And also we're just going to do that without visuals with this big storm moving in. I've been tracking models sending out texts updating Longmont leader and Broomfield leader. So then just all over the place Wednesday, February 23rd is our up. I should be last quarter moon. The moon is an innate on the wrong side. Sorry about that Another casualty of being busy for our drought We are seeing more relief as more precipitation has come into the state Especially out here on the Northeast Plains a whole bunch of the extreme drought drops down to severe drought nationally things on the Plains are not too far from Colorado have also gotten better This last week did not have an update this week It was a broken link so I can just show the snow pack up to a couple weeks ago Three weeks ago actually so hopefully they fix that and get that up and running again Over the last seven days a little bit of precipitation came in with our storm earlier in the week and Most of it hit Boulder down to Denver where you had a foot of snow You know around Boulder and Golden up here in Fort Collins Greeley. They just got a slight trace of precipitation it was a pretty small but potent storm for just a few counties nationally Wednesday Here's the big storm Putting itself together right now as I record at early afternoon on Wednesday and you can see snow hitting most of the State we have mixed precipitation in this purple rain and thunderstorms with a severe thunderstorm risk in North Texas, Oklahoma Today we'll cover that again in a moment We have a winter storm warning to up and down I-25 to Castle Rock not to the Springs though. This is going to be a more potent up here We have a winter weather advisers in the mountains again A lot of these storms have not hit the mountains recently. They've been low altitude Foothills focused systems So for Wednesday what we have the server complex Double low here in the upper level flow and some pretty good amount of cold air not super cold It's not a gigantic storm, but it's definitely getting most of Colorado some precipitation The forecasters at weather 5280 and I really recommend going to their site. They have a Great service great forecasting and great models a lot of the stuff we have here comes from there particular long I-25 they have two to four inches I'm going a little higher in the three to six Area especially with the temperature staying below freezing on Wednesday The first snow is starting to snick stick right away But five to ten may be a few spots of a foot up here in the mountains as well It's not Rocky Mountain National Park and down So we do have a severe weather and in North Texas, Oklahoma today There's a chance of Tremales high wind and damaging hail You may have some thunderstorms for the first time in a long time in the southwest corner of the state with this potent system and it becomes a pretty big tornado risk to mile down here in the southern states, so Hopefully people are not tuned out thinking winter thoughts and they are alert We don't want any deaths to occur the next day Friday. It's off the coast Our next storm is a preview is a slower Kind of much colder one coming in Tuesday Monday Tuesday into Wednesday next week pretty deep trough here with again snow Falling over the state not a big heavy snow rate storm, but continuous very fluffy longer period storm So our normals are 44 and 18 dropping to 17 really not much change here in February We definitely have a good period of precipitation all the miles agree on that different runs disagree on What's gonna happen next week on Monday into Tuesday and Wednesday, but there is a tremendous drop in temperature Look how far below normal we get we could see things down on the negatives So Next Wednesday PM Big big trough and snow. I think I got my maps next up and there's the extreme cold Coming down the plains next Wednesday. Yeah, the earlier maps with the trough looked just like this That was this Wednesday's system. I'm sorry So let's put it in motion see it all happen through. There's our double lobe for this storm Here is the trough pulling out. There is a ridge a giant ridge off the west coast But it doesn't really come in before the next trough starts to dig on Monday Look how deep this gets into Tuesday And it's a lot slower see a wider Trough will move slower once it gets narrow it starts to speed up and then on Thursday into Friday There's even a hint of another one rolling down our way We are back into an active winter pattern. So let's take a look at these cold fronts This is a temperature departure from normal purples are below normal So and reds and pinks are above normal there goes a blob of cold with today Wednesdays and Thursdays storm over the weekend We get really warm Here's the next sharp cold front Ripping down over the Rockies Sliding right down low altitude not able to get over the mountains initially eventually It's deep enough to cover the mountains and goes all the way down into Texas and Northern Mexico and lots of cold air over the state Oh whole nation the cold front even get making it down almost to Florida another shot comes down on the end of the week For the next weekend, so let's take a look at precipitation. Here's the Wednesday storm into Thursday There's over the weekend very very nice And you can start to see the system come together up here in the Pacific Northwest for Sunday Comes down into the northern Rockies. There's a low traveling southeastward for Tuesday into Wednesday I don't know how much makes on the Northeast Plains versus the mountains on that one And then right here at the end of the animation you can see this next system coming down for maybe Friday's Saturday Of the weekend after this weekend Over the next five Switch to channel three for pick up. Thank you. Sorry about that. Maybe I should be record this For the next five days. We have a quarter to half inch of Liquid precipitation the snow is about two three four five inches right along 925. We have some areas eight inches or so around Boulder That wasn't sensitive information. So I'll just keep rolling here. You got to keep moving the next 10 days we have a half inch to inch and a half of liquid and That equates to totals in the foot area right down to almost high 25 as both storms combined So yeah, we're definitely gonna be getting some moisture again So we start really cold stay cold for Thursday Snow ends in the pre-dawn hours Thursday warms up beautifully for the weekend and then tremendously cold Monday and Tuesday with negative five Really good chance of precipitation returning on Monday and Tuesday as well. So who made it through pretty much For more frequent weather updates and local news check out the Longmont leader and also broomfield leader calm This has been weather forecast for Wednesday, February 16th. Keep looking up