 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 I'm chief meteorologist Janensworth or long mom public media Got a full moon big one I know the media is calling it super moon because it's a little closer to earth than normal But it's actually really hard to tell by the human eye, but super moon. There you go on Thursday The Sun's pretty active. We got a number of spots north and south of the equator that are active We've had some aurora activity in the higher Latitudes Looking at drought going from last week to this week. We've had a Much improvement across the southern part of the state and you'll see why rain keeps coming in our little area of complete drought free nests in north-central Colorado as Still there and grown a little bit more so it's fantastic We see going nationally from the areas of the south and this axis from Arizona to Colorado things are getting better Little holes in the drought some places have had some relief down in Texas That should change soon. We should start to see some moisture and cooler weather in Texas for a while Here's our seven-day precipitation total. You can see mostly mountains in the southern southeastern plains Got it. Northwest is dry and extreme northeast corner dry as well Doing the severe weather Animation from May through June July and a second week of August You see we still have the possibility. It's going to drop off quickly here But we still can get some severe weather. We even had a marginal risk one day this week with all the flooding that occurred looking at Storm chances and severe chances over the next four days Nothing on Wednesday totally dry little chance right over the I-25 of some thunderstorm activity Pretty much the same for Friday and then it bumps a little further east on Saturday. No severe weather just a chance of convection Looking at the surface map for Thursday Friday and Saturday The red hashed here is where heavy rain and flash flooding is possible and you can see over the next few days I just shifts closer and closer to us Smoke is pretty much non-existent. Some fires up here smokes being carried around the ridge in a way So our normal high temperatures drop another degree 88 to 87 59 to 57 for nighttime temperatures We stay pretty hot at the upper edge here and how we get to the weekend and then we go to a lower end of the Temperature range you can see how dried is at the end of this week and then by Sunday and Next week rain chances really come back and stay And all that's because of proximity to the high It's pretty much sitting right on top of Walnut Here on Tuesday, I'm sorry should be Wednesday p.m. Long label and the moisture is going up and over the ridge here Looking at that pattern a day later Just doesn't move very much at all moisture is down here and being shunted out into our west by Thursday p.m. There it is Visible satellite or not the visible satellite be visible in the water vapor satellite and this is precipitable water Forecast it's inching closer by Thursday evening, but not quite here yet Then by Monday noon, we've got a ridge sitting Over us, but the high centers over to Oklahoma. So we have a wide open flow from the Gulf and the oceans and Here it comes that should be a blue H Monday the thunderstorms are widespread rain every place and Then Wednesday the pattern doesn't change much. It's still a river of atmospheric moisture over our heads And thunderstorms and rain in the afternoon So let's take a look at in motion to keep an eye on that ridge here for Friday Saturday Just keeping us dry and then the south winds return on Sunday the high center wobbles around Texas, Oklahoma and just Keeps on going every into Tuesday Wednesday the next forecast period And the high is down here in Texas, and we just have we have north flow for a little bit there And it's gonna arc back around from the West Southwest again Again summer temperatures don't mean too much other than it's abnormally cool And midday here because of the amount of moisture in the atmosphere then the thunderstorms blossom right after that It's so cool thunderstorms night time And then the moisture returns to us, so then the thunderstorms are falling All over the place lots of coverage of clouds showers and thunderstorms into the middle part of next week So the real map that matters is this Precipitable water how much can be rained out of the sky the browns are below normal and Greens are above normal blue is even higher than that so I come up a while and we've had some blue shading there So that just stays entrenched through Tuesday Wednesday Going into Thursday is a little dryness here This is at north winds old backdoor cool front pushes the moisture back to the mountains The western slopes never get out of it, and then it comes arc and right back over by the following weekend and By next weekend half of the nation out here the West is really moist So here we go thunderstorms you saw them in the Temperature of the blossoming of thunderstorms and the cooling of the rain. So here's the actual future radar And see it's dry through Monday, and here it is Monday Afternoon pulse happens crash all over the place. It was Tuesday Thunderstorms all over the place moving out of the planes Wednesday more to the south south west part of the state gets kind of suppressed a little bit late next week And then begins to come back for the following weekend. I'll do one more afternoon here. There you go thunderstorms in the Eastern Plains so next five days The rain starts to return, but it's largely in the mountains here a little bit on the Palmer divide But over the next ten days very significant amounts of water our Building up in rain gauges. We got two two and a half three inches up in the mountains in the central mountains and even down in the Southwest so Fantastic So we are touching near records 90s almost a hundred ending the week and Beginning the weekend then the afternoon Sunday the moisture starts to come back We cool down to the lower part of the 80s with really good storm chances every afternoon Longmont leader Broomfield leader gives you frequent weather updates and local news This has been chief meteorologist John insworth. Keep looking up