 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Tuesday September 16th having a record from home for this week Sorry about that. I'm chief meteorologist John and it's worth for Longmont public media This Wednesday September 17th. We have the new moon might have gone out early on Tuesday and seen a very funny like Tonail looking moon in the morning sky. It was pointing almost straight down It's just an interesting combination of the geometry of the Path of the Sun and the moon and the planets and the horizon and where the Sun is right now But it did look kind of odd So moon rise moon set very close to sunrise and sunset Let's go back and take a look at these records. We left y'all last week with all these possible records It may be set or broken. So what actually happened? Well, we did set the latest 100 degree temperature in a year that occurred on Saturday We had the shortest time from going from 90 degrees Fahrenheit or over to snow That was probably a very easy thing to break We did hit the greatest number of 90 degree plus days But it was only tied on Labor Day. It took until Monday the 14th To break it and then on Tuesday the 15th. We've done it again We have a lot cold records as well, too. We have a record low-high temperature we're looking at 42 for Tuesday and It was actually still as warm as 44 that occurred after midnight So the daytime the afternoon temperatures are down in the 30s, but that doesn't matter It's midnight to midnight and it stayed just a touch too warm past midnight. So we didn't get that one But the record low Tuesday was 31 beating the old record of 34 We had the record low high temperature on Wednesday. The old record was 53. It's now set at 41 huge break there We did have the record low on Wednesday by a degree 30 degrees instead of 31 We did not break the record two-day temperature drop the previous record of being 76 We only dropped 65 but the one-day temperature drop we did do the previous record was 53 and we had 62 so not too bad We did have the second earliest snow and the most known the first storm of one inch so That's a Denver we actually had an inch and a half here in Longmont and We were looking at the possible breaking of the precipitation record for September 8th overall. We did get About three quarters of an inch of water, but it took about two and a half days to do it So we did not break that record on that one day Taking a look at drought conditions I don't think the rainfall that we got is really showing up in the data yet because here's the previous week And here's this week's showing again more drought Like conditions out in the Western part of the state. So hold on. We'll see what it says next week Nationwide a lot of the drought regions have now kind of connected throughout Colorado, Utah and Arizona Nevada So let's get some rain in here We did get rain without a storm over the last seven days The light greens are half inch to an inch and that tracks at about point eight point seven seven or so and I Backyard rain gauge the darker greens top an inch That's all the way through this northern mountain area where the fires are not out in the West so much We had some spots top two inches in yellow Let's take a look at the snow. We have to look at day by day. I'll give you the totals for our two nearest cities So up to 7 a.m. Tuesday. We didn't have anything but some light rain But there was precipitation falling a snow up on the foothills half inch almost two inches above boulder and Trace to a quarter of an inch in Boulder for the next morning up to 7 a.m. Wednesday We got everything we could get one point six one point seven was two inches a little bit out on 66 And then above Boulder threes fours five inch amounts and in Boulder itself We had five inches four inches three point eight. So pretty good up here I don't know what community that is six point eight inches of snow up there All right, and then we picked up a trace more by Thursday 7 a.m. Because the storm cut off and it was a slower And we ended up with one point five a lot fish laying in Longmont Boulder five point six Well, you probably noticed that smoke is starting to leak back in and it's inevitable There's so much smoke in the atmosphere of the particular load is ridiculous on Monday we were in the clear the high pressure system is sort of centered in the Utah area and Jess was circulating clean air around for a change bringing the Big swoop of stuff up to the north but by Tuesday. It was starting across the Wyoming Colorado border and The forecast for Wednesday is it finally just kind of breaks for Ian heads down the front range as stuff does We'll see it worse later in the week We have a trough off the coast. It'll be progressing inward and that's going to eventually Make a straight fetch from the fires down into the four corners area Colorado like that So sorry about that smoke is back this is the lower smoke or smoke near the surface and What it tries to do is break up this total smoke at all levels forecast for Wednesday and to upper Troposphere middle troposphere and near surface the near surface is moderate So you'll probably still be able to see at least on Wednesday the outline of the mountains to the west even if the skies are very white But this will probably be mixing down. There's just too much smoke not to get it spilling into our area The water vapor satellite loop shows that high over Utah the ridge extending up into Western Canada And the moisture being shunted off up there. We have Hurricane Sally down here about to hit the Alabama Mississippi coast and a little tropical something off of Corpus Christi and the tropical moisture envelope around that area and bone dry air off of Southern California and very dry air up into the Central mountains and stretching out onto the plains So we're we're just caught in between the two moist regions in really dry air again Give you some good news though The normal high temperatures over the next 10 days drops from 79 to 75 Lows from 61 to 56. So we're starting to really see a slope now It is heading down Temperatures are still above normal from much the next week and there is a hint in the middle of next week of a return of a trough Cool air and some precipitation chances So don't give up. It nice and this is out there in the future over the next 15 days watch this ridge in the west can see it kind of Consolidating with a central high there not far from us keeping us above average Here comes the trough Friday into Saturday Passing by and that'll really start a cool down not tremendous But it'll keep us somewhat cooler. You can see the winds are now coming by the weekend straight from the fires towards us then going off to Tuesday and Into Wednesday next week and see a more general Low coming down trough coming down After that does it look like the ridge may re-establish itself And then another trough starts coming in the west. So as I called it before this is a progressive pattern So you'll see troughs replaced by ridges replaced by troughs Things are more on the move than they were It was that high all the way out on September 29th to September 30th back at the beginning You can see sally down here. I want to call it sandy. It's not that sally down here coming inland And passing just north of Atlanta before kind of getting absorbed into the west release Can look for cool downs over the next 15 days Here's somewhat above normal temperatures Here's a big blob of cold air coming down later in the week And it kind of gets into the eastern plains But never really backs up hill far enough to get to the front range East gets really cold here. It comes a cold front sunday with 20th Into the west and it kind of fizzles out That's that passing shortwave Abnormal heat for a while here comes another cold front On the 23rd and that one actually finally comes down the front range 23rd 24th 25th Of september or cool down and maybe some precipitation chances then too So again, it is beginning To break this high likes to reestablish itself, but troughs are making their way through it now and then By the end of the month very hot in the west. Oh crazy heat on the 30th with another cold front in the Great Lakes And to support the dry air and the ridge the next five days in precipitation is Nothing for color arcs. It may be this a few hundred feet of Soil up here and the extreme northwest may see some precipitation Over the next 10 days with that first smaller passing trough the mountains may see some showers And just a little wetting on the plains So looking out for the next seven days We have eighties almost touching 90 again on thursday before we settle back to somewhat above normal in the mid eighties for the weekend low eighties coming out of the weekend And upper seventies into next week We don't get a small chance of rain come back until the beginning of next week probably better tuesday wednesday When we will be making another video to cover that next week We'll finish with Sally Sally is a hurricane Did look at first like it was going to almost make one of the most catastrophic approaches to noraleens itself in the mouth of the Mississippi It is strengthened greatly and that has helped to kind of Feel the westerlies a little more so it's curving more to the east. So hooray some some horrible disaster Looks like has been Largely avoided These people here don't want to be hit by it, but they don't have the same Lowland below sea level Levy type situation they're at least above sea level and can weather the storm For more local news and more frequent weather updates check out longmont leader At the longmontleader.com I've been chief meteorologist john insworth Keep looking up