 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, March 20th 2024 This is Chief Meteorologist John Ennsworth for Longmont Public Media. I'm just getting this Recording slipped in here. We're gonna have the bell grow off in four minutes. I'm sorry. So full moon on Sunday, March 20th Some big active spots coming around on the Sun. We're still in near a solar maximum for drought conditions that Expansion that came in knocked things back from severe to moderate in the southern mountains Looking nationwide not nothing much changes and that's kind of what winter is like We do have fires in the central and southeast part of the nation and that got some smoke mixing into the equation looking at the snowpack for this Snow season we've been hovering around below Until of course this big storm the dump feet of snow now statewide we're at about 107% So we're got a good bump right about peak season here Looking at the previous storm Thursday four six five seven inches of snow around Longmont Boulder five six seven nine ten thirteen inches of snow I'm the first part of the storm the second day picked up three four and a half inches more four six seven eleven fifteen There's a 12 in there So very very good snow big stuff up in the mountains here Perceptationalized two and a half to three four inches in places. We got two and a half inches of water snow melt and all in my Backyard in the Southwest got some great rain too Looking at severe conditions We got really nothing in the state until Thursday a little bit in the Northeast and then clears out for Friday for Wednesday We have a stationary front on the planes moving ways temperatures Rebound got some snow in the mountains rain showers in the mountains up for Friday Weather 52 80 site has been down for about a week or more So I had to go someplace else for some of this data Normal high 56 goes up to 58 normal low 28 to 30 So we're almost above freezing for our normal low temperature. That's fantastic Here's our chance of precipitation Sunday into Monday Looking at the strict moisture we got a system down in Texas and a new one brewing up in Gulf of Alaska and The next notable system is this big trough in the West on Sunday kind of messy couple lobes of Well pressure there the low forms pretty far north with that big snow closings School closing snow further north then it kind of wraps around and gets us Sunday night Sunday midnight into Monday morning early So put this into motion You can see the ridge right now warm temperatures into the first part of the weekend and the trough starts to carve its way down And roll over us Sunday into Monday and a piece of the energy goes way far south passing by And then going into your own announcements so that Second system at the end of the week could be another Thursday storm system then looking at the Cold air coming down. We have it sitting out there on that stationary front Pushing down into Texas in the southeast But we have this real warmth here until the next trough carves its way down bringing a cold front with a wraparound on that low and it stays a little cool for a few days and then starts to Warm up very nicely in the first part of the week For moisture, I'll just show this through the passage of the first system for Sunday into Monday Here comes the low and It tightens up really wraps some stuff around then dry air flows in very quickly For dew points, this is really a fun one this time You can see all the gulf moisture sitting out on the planes getting pushed down by a front And then it suddenly gets sucked up into the low and it wraps around really tightly I'll be our chance of rain or snow. Maybe thunderstorms on Sundays even possible and super dry air comes on in So I'll watch this first storm Here's that system in the south moving off in a way Here comes the low organizing snow fire to the north wraps around hits us And then kind of skirts out real fast got snow showers in the mountains And then rain showers another ripple that comes in so without weather 52 80 just have to see maybe a half inch or so of precipitation around a long amount inch just to the mountains for snow We got six to eight eight inches in the nearby foothills But maybe only coating to a couple inches. This could hop up to be a few more inches One site is now saying two to four inches Sunday night in the Monday morning Then maybe get to about an inch inch and a half over the next 10 days, California's getting a lot of water and But not much more snow. So the temperatures are warming up So 60s and 70s into the weekend cools down a little bit not great temperatures for a lot of snow And then it's out in the way with just a little lingering stuff on Tuesday Longmont leaders place for great weather updates or if things change with this system I'll post it there and look for great local news. This has been chief mural just John is worth urging you to keep looking up