 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, December 16th I'm Chief Meteorologist John Innsworth for Longmont Public Media Tuesday, December 22nd just before Christmas and a day after winter begins and when we have the closest Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the southwestern sky go check out the skies over Colorado for information on that and Certain newspapers are carrying that too, but we have the first quarter moon in the evening sky So it's gonna make it very pretty Whatever snow we get Looking at drought. Well, we still have that Looking at last weeks. We have still severe drought around Longmont area and north of Denver along I-25 Going to this week. It's a little worse south of Denver A little worse in the southern part of the state. So we just need a big shift and a Fetch of moisture coming in some regular storms the entire west that is from California all over the Northern Plains Down in the West Texas. They're quite dry We did get some snow on Monday, so we have less than an inch around Longmont New snow We haven't gotten rid of the old snow So it's time to pile up a little bit on Boulder more like an inch in most locations It wasn't a big storm, but we'll take anything we can get Looking at the actual amount of precipitation liquid equivalent It was about a half inch to an inch in places in the mountains great news up there out in the plains Just a tiny amount All right, so our next storm is coming in on Friday not much of a storm, but there's this trough pushing down into the west and we'll be Living with Northwest flow again, we're being the storms now, but we just don't have that moisture source Looking at the DFS ensemble notice our normal high temperature 42 our normal low temperature of 17 of flattened They are not dropping. So that's kind of nice and through this time we are Bouncing up and down inside that range for the most part we start out the live normally cool or before Christmas We get a touch of above normal We're back in the cold side of normal right around Christmas Eve Christmas day for Friday The models are in agreement that a lot of runs or an agreement that we have a period of precipitation coming in And our Christmas Eve Systems moving even Trailing into Christmas morning is looking a little better more model runs have something happened and not so this could be Depending on your definition of a white Christmas. Yeah, by Christmas. Is it quite snow on the ground or is it snow? falling on Christmas morning I Grew up in Phoenix. So if I see anything that looks remotely like snow So let's put this in motion before we get to Friday We're kind of warm with that ridge passing by the end of the week here comes that trough digging down in and That's replaced by a bit of a ridge again Going to the weekend by the beginning of the week pretty strong ridge over the state Center down here south of us. So we are warm even with Northwest flow. That's what it's keeping us in the normal range There comes our Christmas Eve System digging down in the west and see Christmas Eve and Christmas Day We're pretty coffee. There's a low passing on Christmas Day itself But the initial system will probably push the moisture out take a look at falling snow and rain So going from Thursday noon into Friday, it's not much. It's mainly in the mountains Western slopes We go into Saturday Sunday little bit of stuff up in the mountains System is coming into the Pacific Northwest by Monday Tuesday. You can see it again, it's act together up there and By Wednesday Thursday Getting Christmas Eve now. There's that little system coming down How much there was Christmas Day at second lowest passing and there's just no moisture for work there That's the solution. We need some atmospheric humidity for the next 10 days taking us up to noon time on Christmas We have snow up to a foot and places in northern mountains some of the favored Faces of mountain ranges are getting some five six eight inches of snow on the plains. It's really light and spotty That's a bolder. Maybe it's a inch between now and then Okay, the amount of precipitation is really really light on significant waters So the next seven days we bounce around a lot 40s 30s up to 50s We have a little period of snow on Friday. I might even bump up that precipitation higher than that For frequent weather updates and local news check out long mountaineater long mountaineater.com I've been chief meteorologist John is worth keep looking up