 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning, Wednesday, February 8th. I'm Chief Meteorologist John Ninsworth at Lama Public Media. I've got a third quarter moon in the morning sky, Monday, February 13th. The sun is pretty active in the hemisphere, stuff is rotated back around after a quiet time last time. Looking at drought conditions, things in the western two-thirds or half or so, Colorado was great and got just a little bit better up here in the northwest. Nothing really changed on the plains and you'll see why it's been pretty dry this week. Looking naturally, the entire west has had a lot of drought relief, Arizona at least southern, central, Arizona is doing great and not much changed from week to week. I'm at Dottosnowpack doing my crude animation here, looking to get up to February 8th. You see we're staying up there pretty high, we're at 124% of median statewide. Some basins are doing much better than others but overall fantastic for water. It was pretty dry this week, we got a little bit of precipitation in the central and northern mountains but for the most part this is the driest week that we've had in quite a long time. This year weather on Wednesday, I even had some tornadoes reported down in the deep south. On Thursday that's moving into Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama, Georgia and goes just a little bit further on Friday into northern Florida, Georgia, South Carolina. Nationally, surface we had a front come through Wednesday night and it whisked on through. I mean there were snow showers but I kept checking outside and I didn't see anything reaching the ground so most of it evaporated, very dry low atmosphere so this is way over represented in their map. On Thursday we have some mountain snows, you can see the clouds kind of hugging the mountains up there on Thursday and then everything's gone by Friday. Had a little bit of smoke from Florida region and like that but nothing in the west. So normal temperatures are taking a bigger climb now, 45 to 47, being nice to see it back in the 50s and night temperatures from 18 to 19. There's our snow band showers Wednesday night. We do have this possibility of a mid-week storm but you can see that the ensembles do not agree. It's about 30-50 as to whether this is going to hold together and affect Denver area. You can see all the moisture from the tropics going into that system in the south and kind of dry stuff out west. So the highlights, what is it right around like that? Friday, Saturday, midnight we have a huge ridge making this weekend very warm. There's trough out here on the west coast. Wednesday this is our next big trough digging in. This is a really good location for some snow and it's a pretty good hit. So we'll see if that holds together again. Last week we had a possible storm next week and it totally fizzled out. I don't think a flake hit anybody I knew so it was just not much of a system so this could easily evaporate or go north or south. It's so far away that it's very questionable. Here's the cold front with it. If it does happen we should get, no matter what, a bunch of cold air into the west. That large-scale cold migration is coming. It's just whether we get precipitation out of it. So let's put it in motion. So we have a couple lobes of lower heights moving out of the state at the end of the weekend. The weekend is warm with this big ridge, more melting than fine. We have a cut-off low barreling through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas to the south of us. Then for the middle of the week this is the trough that could give us our next significant weather. And again right now it looks good but we'll see. It looks like four to six inches maybe if this forecast were to hold. That way it goes by the following weekend. So temperatures, we have a snowpack in the Rockies, a cool air coming through with the cold front, lots of heat in the east, that cold air goes south. We stay really nice to the weekend, very warm. Very normally warm temperatures. There's that deep south low, bringing cold air to Mexico. Then the next big push, a bunch of Pacific cold air pushing through. It's a pretty sharp cold front. Yeah, look at that thing. That's beautiful. And that sweeps warmth out of the entire nation. There's a little blob of Arctic stuff coming into the very tail end of the animation. So let's take a look at this. This is Wednesday nights system sweeping through and falling apart. High and dry for the weekend, watching that low in Arizona, going down into Baja and northern Mexico, little showers in New Mexico. And it kind of consolidates into severe weather chances. Texas, here comes our midweek storm. And it looks a lot like the biggest snows stay north of the state. But we definitely get 12, 18 hours of precipitation. And off it goes. So four precipitation in the next five days. Most of that was last night. Most of that didn't happen. So it was really dry for snow, very, very light. Over the next 10 days, more moisture, but still not a lot on the eastern plains. It's the mountains and western slopes again. And snow, same thing. It's cold enough for snow. And it was like one inch right along here, two or three inches, very quick gradient. We're up to five, six inches for boulder, but an inch or less along I-25. So kind of interesting. So we have 40s, 30s for Thursday. We bounce back quickly to the 40s and for weekend 50s on into the beginning of next week before the next system comes in Tuesday night, if it does. That was it. Quick and easy. This has been chief meteorologist John Ensworth. Keep looking up.