 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, March 23rd 2021 having to do this from remote one more time because of a bunch of meetings I'm chief meteorologist John is worth for long month public media Sundays are full moon Here at the end of the month remember all the way back to Halloween. We've had full moons at the end of the month It's gonna take a while for the pattern to drift around through the Calendar because we just had February so full moon rising near sunset and Rising a setting at sunrise Looking at drought. We are finally seeing some significant improvement. Take a look at the planes. Take a look at the Northern I-25 corridor where all that water fell and a lot of the snow is still melting and soaking in from last week To this week. We have seen many regions drop a category or two in drought severity Still need stuff on the western slopes But eventually that stuff will melt there and we've had a good stream of moisture I think we're still around 90% snowpack at this point. So on this side I think we've now exceeded 100% by a good amount Liking nationally not much different except right in this area northeast Colorado Wyoming Nebraska area And you can see Kansas Really getting some good moisture long-term drought Is a lessened right to the center here? So how much snow do we get in our little storm earlier this week so up to Monday morning? About one and a half to two and a half inches of snow around Longmont We had two and a half up to four almost five inches in a few spots around Boulder, which is that's back to the normal pattern Moisture wise Half inch to an inch in the light greens darker greens go one inch to two inches So a lot of the area here did get some rain with that snow is over two inches of moisture west of four columns So fantastic there for Hopefully our next fire season. We don't get a fire season. I'd be really great For Wednesday noon what we have overalls is big trough in the west and a ridge in the east With troughs traveling through every now and then this is the Tuesday night energy Who's Wednesday morning coming passing south southwest of the state? And so looking at the future surface map you can see for Wednesday noon snow hitting New Mexico North-east Arizona four corners southern Colorado and the central mountains more than us, which is fine We have plenty right now Looking at Friday the overall troughiness in the west Ridginess in the east continues with another trough coming down to bring in some more rain showers I'd say in the lower elevations and snow just because it's getting warmer So let's take a look at that warmth our low normal is going from 29 to 31 I think next week we should see the normal low temperature hit or exceed freezing our normal high goes from 57 to Practically 60 now normal high should be 60. So We're in spring. I mean we've passed Astronomical spring on the 20th We have meteorological spring on the first and now temperatures are definitely expected to be spring light They're coming on a cool side in the beginning and then we get right in the middle of normal Through the weekend into next week. We do have a late Tuesday night Wednesday chance of snow and Rain here. We have a Friday chance of precipitation into Saturday morning and then something mid week next week Putting this into motion. You can see the first low moving through. This is our Wednesday storm into Thursday moving away Here comes another trough digging down to the west for Friday into Saturday It's kind of energy is kind of broken up into a couple regions Then we got ridge coming through Giving us a nice warm weekend beginning of the week then about Tuesday is Tuesday noon is Wednesday another trough comes in next week So just what the Ensemble showed this is the same model showing you the pattern Again temperatures Nothing not normally cold as we saw in the ensemble Some really cold weather south of us, but the West stays chilly through the weekend We move into The weekend and we start to see some warmth really coming into the Pacific Northwest Spreading across the West for Sunday and Monday. It's going to be really beautiful So it's going to be nice and those are cold coming in for Tuesday and the Wednesday next week It's good work for precipitation. Not as organized as some of our previous storms was the Tuesday Wednesday storm being south of us Stiffy Northeast Colorado. Here's the Friday storm a little better organization than for moments I mean travel through a very dry High-pressure dominated weekend at the beginning of next week and the mid-week storm Starts to head down this way and it looks like a really nice short period of up-slope snow We'll keep an eye on that for next week So up to Thursday p.m. We get a trace out here in the plains maybe one to two inches of snow By the time things wrap up on Wednesday south west of Denver again gets it better the southern mountains Should not do the time to try to drive down to Albuquerque during the Wednesday system Over the next 10 days. We don't add much Little more snow in the floodhills, but again, it's because temperatures are warmer that snow in the plains probably won't be as much of a thing So what does that look like 40s going to the 50s and then Sunday? Oh my goodness In a Monday, we see 70 show up. Oh, wow, it's gonna be great I have a little bit of rain shower chances on Friday. Maybe snow overnight on Tuesday 48 and 28 we have daytime rain my town snow it's getting harder to Get big snows with that cold For frequent mother updates and lots of local news check out long about leader long about leader calm This has been chief meteorologist John is worth keep looking up