 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, November 25th I am Chief Meteorologist John Unsworth for Longmont Public Media and Thanksgiving is upon us After that after your turkeys done. We do have a full moon on Sunday So again, we are having full moons right at the end of the month and that pattern can keep on going for a while Takes while to drift backwards through the month Tickling on the drought. We're still only in Swamps severe drought. That sounds bad, but sir draw around Longmont area We've had Summer rainfall and snow down south of Pueblo and regions like that Mountains are still really bad and if you go from last week here to this week It's gone a little worse down in the west and the eastern plains, but not much temperatures are cool So evaporation rates are low and we have had at least a little moisture. So things are kind of holding steady Looking nationally the long-term drought is expanding across most of the West we have all the way down to Arizona out to the northern California now into the northern plains For the precipitation for the last seven days We did see half inch to an inch In of water in the northern central mountains and in places out west Right around Denver. I got around half inch to point seven inches similarly well Bouldered to Longmont got missed a little bit with only about a quarter inch of liquid Looking at the snowfall though the last seven days is really just this end of the weekend beginning of the week storm We had about an inch and a half of snow around town and Boulder as usual did better with about three to four Almost five inches of snow on the diagonal highway there looking at the pattern right now Wednesday, sorry, it says Monday, but Wednesday we have a ridge Right over the state giving us some warmth. We have this trough approaching from the west and a departing low out here in the Ohio Valley Looking out to the next Ten days, you know that trough passes on Thanksgiving. It's just a very small chance of rain or snow Thanksgiving evening. It's our turkey normal high temperatures dropped from 48 to 44 and Normal low 21 to 18 You can see the predicted temperature on the ensemble here. It is right in the middle of that envelope We have normal weather just normal is happening Looking out the beginning of December. There are chances of showers on some of the runs Nothing really coherent. It's kind of something around the second and third here But we'll just have to keep an eye on it. There's no strong signal for a Snow or rain event in the next 10 days So let's take a look at the interesting patterns that are going on even without moisture Have a cutoff low rolling by on Thanksgiving Going right through Texas Reply of some severe weather down here I have a trough passing on the 30th beginning of next week Then we get a warm ridge followed by another cutoff low that sinks down into Arizona And there's a cutoff low that's actually going backwards But with the other systems down here. It's just not a way to get moisture up to us So there's another cutoff low coming down to the west going out to the fifth and the sixth And it's kind of backing up to the west so really interesting pattern Dissuasionment some rain and snow So over the next 10 days very meager amounts maybe over might see a dusting To maybe an inch and mountains a little bit of snow Northern New Mexico a little bit better, but just not a lot of precipitation is expected looking at liquid itself It's not much. It's it's remaining below quarter inch. It's pretty much confined to the foothills and Eastern most mountain ranges So for the next seven days 40s and 50s Not anything unusually warm or cold clouds and on then a very tiny chance of Snow showers or rain showers Thursday evening And again over the weekend into next week Just not a lot to cover so we'll wrap it up here for more frequent weather updates Take a look at the lawnmont leader lawnmont leader comm and local lawnmont news This has been your weekly forecast on chief meteorologist John elsewhere keep looking up