 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, December 28th 2022 I'm chief meteorologist John is worth for Longmont public media Thursday 29th. We have our first quarter moon in the evening sky is guys should clear out after this system on Wednesday and should look very nice in the south the Northern hemisphere of the Sun has some some spot activity going right now, but nothing else happening there Looking at drought conditions over the last couple weeks Things got a little better out on the eastern plains there was that additional moisture out there But not much else has changed which is pretty normal for winter looking nationally pretty similar except out here in the southeast a huge Region got rain and drought conditions of the lesson going back in the king of the west things got a little bit better in The west of California up into Nevada, and that's really going to change over the next few weeks Look in our snowpack. We've gone Right above mountain to 93 then 106 percent 108 percent and Back to 95 percent snowpack over kind of dancing back and forth around normal The next couple storm systems are gonna dump a lot in the mountains, so we should see this go into the 100 plus percent area pretty nicely And then on the 28th, we're right at a hundred percent so fantastic news there For the pre-Christmas snowstorm Longmont got around four to five six inches of snow Boulder did as it usually does really well with six to eight inches down here But we feel around five or six areas up above boulder got up to ten inches of snow Looking precipitation. There's the good amount of water content up to two to three inches in the yellows wide areas of a half inch to an inch So we just keep the hydrology going Very nicely. Hey turning to forecast looking into severe weather severe weather is non-existent, but there are some Thunderstorms that can occur in Northern Arizona four corners area As this system approaches, you know create a marginal risk East Texas up in the Arkansas area for Thursday, and then just chance of thunderstorms Friday This is not a very vigorous system like some of the earlier ones that created tornado outbreaks in December It is a big messy wet one though. We have a primary low And I've over Vegas on Wednesday morning got showers behind with the next system snow mountain snows rain snow mix in the purple all over the place for Wednesday going to Thursday becomes storm out in the plains and up on the Western slopes and then for Friday another heavy western slope storm that should allow us to warm up with some downslope on the silver mountains no Organized fires going on in the whole West no smoke issues at all Of the next 10 days our normal high temperature goes from 43 to 44 We are now starting to see a rise in the normal temperatures. We've hit the bottom 17 up to 18 for normal We've got Wednesday Thursday storm here very tight very short Duration system like 12 hours or so of rain and snow and then a little longer drawn out event January 1st 2nd, maybe even lasting some effects into the third Looking at Tuesday into Wednesday's Water vapor satellite imagery we see a lot of moisture come up from the tropics head of this low as it moves in Tuesday ahead of this system. We had downslope winds and a ridging overhead. We had temperatures over 20 Even 30 degrees above normal on the eastern plains is pretty Amazing there so the highlights in the pattern for the next week Start with the storm the day where I'm recording Wednesday with the deep trough moving in And snow the surface load down here and Oklahoma panhandle We have a ridge moving in over the weekend and so very nice conditions and then Upper level low almost goes right over the top of Denver lawnmot on Thursday the second We have another system right behind it, too So a pretty active pattern sitting up the east coast of the US will be very dry and abnormally warm Looking at the surface precipitation on the second. We have a good 12-18 hour period in which rain and snow are possible So the next 10 days we see the initial storm system coming in Right up over the ridge in the east The deep south component here we'll get Texas and those storms going down there the next storm system moves in here's January 1st new year 2023 Well goes right up and over and then there's the second load back here. It's interesting to watch I think it goes too far south as well to give us much on the third or fourth But it could lift a little further north and really draw out the precipitation sun Temperatures are just amazingly warm On the center of the nation and the eastern plains. We have this little bitty Front coming through right now. It's just not going to bring much cooler at all. Everything else up again And we have this Pacific flow coming in for the first and second none of the real purples Moving in like we have a lot of system. We may see that middle late January come again But yeah, there's Dakotas get some really cold there, but it's not too unusual for them looking at this surface system there goes our Wednesday Thursday storm at the beginning of the Forecast system here comes tremendous amount of rain and mountain snows for California, Oregon Washington, they're really gonna fill up some lakes out there and this system comes in and really cranks Over us for a day or two. There was that deep self-component with that second globe in the upper level pattern For the next five days, we might see Quarter inch 10th of an inch on the plains There's areas boulder to Denver that may see more three quarters of an inch But some of that may come down as rain at the beginning Miles have been kind of crazy as to how much snow is gonna hit Right west of Denver and then up to Boulder. This model is giving local areas five six inches I just don't know about it though the rather 52 80 folks and there's a formatting problem from PowerPoint They have about one to three inches for most of the areas from lawnmout down to Colorado Springs But if banding sets up then you could get three to six inches in some areas So just get this like training of Precipitation Mountains just do incredibly robbing get 12 18 inches down here 24 to 36 inches Near Silverton and tell your eye fantastic moments No, it's the next 10 days a lot of moisture one two three and a half inches of actual water content and down the plains you get maybe an inch on this side on the left side of Denver Half inch through quotes an inch up long I-25 There's some really good snows over that New Year's Storm. So here is five inches more This is in addition to whatever we get Wednesday Thursday So that's next system right at the beginning of the new year really needs to be watched and to huge areas of two foot Snow totals. This is using 10 to 1 snow ratios. Not the fluffier Ratios you get for cold weather So we start with a really good chance of precipitation on Wednesday things dry out very little chance of stuff even though there will be Precipitation hitting the western slopes. It's pretty unusual for it to push all the way over unless the winds really increase Sunday Monday storm coming in temperatures drop down not to extreme levels in 10 degrees at night This bus blows it gets but I'll give some good fluffy snow if it's still snowing at that time January early outlook has below normal temperatures north of us and above way out in the southeast equal chances of overblown normal and Same frequent chances of above a below normal precipitation as a north northern chair stays pretty wet I think it really should be west coast Above normal you're gonna see a lot of precipitation moving through that And if we do get that real cold shot mid-January Kind of a son of the cold shot. We got December then that would change everything One month later in Broomfield leader has lots of local news and frequent weather updates by me This has been chief meteorologist John Anzworth keep looking up