 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, April 3rd. This is Chief Mirage with China's with frontal and public media They have a very notable new moon Monday, April 8th. It'll be a total solar eclipse much anticipated Are going from Mexico up into the New England States? I'm actually planning to get out there. Central Texas is about 50 50 chance of clouds So I'll take those odds, but that will be visible here and we'll talk about that now So here's the path going from Central Mexico up across Texas Arkansas Illinois, Indiana, Ohio up through the Great Lakes Upstate New York main and up into Canada The path of totality is here. You got to be under that line to see the Sun totally covered for about four minutes on the center line a little bit more than four out here in Denver, Longmont, Laudland area. It's about 70% right between these two So it's there's no point in The eclipse in Colorado that you can safely look at the Sun. You've got to have properly Manufactured glasses or use an indirect method like a pinhole in a card Stock or something like that and look at the shadow look at the image down on the ground The Sun does have some sunspots off of the edge It would have been nice to have some sunspots across the face of the Sun since people will be using proper eye protection and seeing this but Anyways a little more on the forecast at the end So drought conditions get a little better in the southern mountains Just a small change Nationwide you see drought relief kind of in this big band from the Great Lakes to the southwest Overall the nation is doing pretty well when it comes to water supply very small areas of serious drought our fires in the Central Plains, I think some of that might be a Planned or necessary for agriculture the smoke kind of smears out after that looking at our snowpack we're seeing it stay below Median up until just recently and we're really kind of aiming for this median peak of water content So that's snow water equivalent pretty nice 109% statewide mountains are definitely carrying a lot of that because the snow has already gone on the plains from last one We are pretty warm Pretty significant amount of water in the northern mountains Looking for severe weather into the first week of April it rapidly grows in the south and starts expanding the climatology the good chances of severe weather approaching Colorado in the next month Look at the actual chances Friday's quiet. That's not Friday. That should have been updated. Sorry Is that right That's Thursday. This is Friday. There's Saturday some severe weather out in the plains All right, this is Val for Thursday. It's all one day off Really warm dry conditions Friday we have fire danger with pretty strong winds we got winds up to a hundred miles an hour in the foothills and That continues in Saturday, even though they have snowed down here 59 to 61 is our normal high 31 to 33 we're now above freezing for our expected low temperatures So it's getting harder and harder, but again don't turn on the sprinkler systems Until after Mother's Day is the rule of thumb along I-25. We have a little chance of precipitation Saturday morning And then some better chances next week, but and a bit of a cool down to you can see Saturday is our rain chances. It's a pretty impressive looking trough, but it's just not a lot happening a Lot of disagreement over the rain snow mix I think it's gonna be mostly rain and not much of it less than a tenth of an inch along I-25 around Longmont area this has more snow mixed in so I don't know Let's take a look the next 14 days in animation. So this big ridge is what's giving us the mid 70s And that trough and cut-off swings through see how it almost parks, but it's hitting other people not us There's that next little bowling ball coming down here about Tuesday Wednesday Giving us another chance of precipitation at that time And the ridge definitely comes back into the West so look for some really warm temperatures again next week Taking a look at those temperatures. We are under the ridge really warm Cold air out west and out east kind of pinched in between front comes through on Saturday. Yeah, it's it's cool but only briefly so Kind of pulses in and gets back towards normal by Tuesday another cold pool down south But warm temperatures Definitely dominate after that Working out Water vapor. I'm gonna look at this for Texas for the eclipse as much as There's our moisture for the weekend Saturday Go Sunday and see the moisture gets swept out to the southeast And then this is eclipse time and the moisture is just starting to surge back in So it's all about timing. Well, the surge happened quickly or not Dew points. I'm just gonna take it through this Saturday storm So that is dew points pretty high 40s wrap around that low and linger for a little bit into Monday So, yeah, it'll smell moist and spring like out there Okay, let's look at actual precipitation Going into Friday into Saturday here comes snow on the western slopes and pretty heavy rain and stuff wrap around snow and rain on Sunday Again, I think it's over done, but we'll see what actually happens little central showers On Tuesday the system is pretty far south of us Okay, so the next five days minimal precipitation may be up to a quarter inch boulder maybe a half inch of stuff snow maybe a coating mixed in with the Snow and rain maybe an inch or two and boulder more up in the foothills. It's just pretty warm The next 10 days a little bit more is a half inch moisture, but not any significant snow So I have 70s and upper 70s by Friday a pretty good cool down for the weekend and Cool into the next week with a chance of Saturday and Monday precipitation So taking a look at whether for the eclipse again, it's going through this area here No actual precipitation at the time of the eclipse noon time one o'clock Monday Here's a future satellite and it shows now. There's a pretty sharp line here of high clouds and Trouble versus clear, but even with high clouds. You should be able to see Most of what's going on with the Sun. It definitely can shine through clouds We have 80 70% cloud cover 60 at Waco 50% up in Dallas and Another model here looks very similar. Here's the eclipse path with another model Having 70% cloud cover down here that surge 50s and then 20s around Dallas So a really sharp line here. We're gonna be in north central, Texas here about there So we should be okay. So check out Longmont leader for Frequent weather updates and local news. This has been chief morale just John is worth urging you to keep looking out