 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday January 24th 2024 kind of cool This is chief me all just John is earth for long not public media I've got time for one take on this so nothing goes wrong Thursday January 25th will be our full moon and it is going to be beautiful big Monster full moon. The Sun is very active right now sunspots everywhere just going to town Look in a drought from last week to this week We had definitely some snow and precipitation on the out in the West So some of the Northwest shrunk everything else kind of staying the same as happens in the winter Looking nationally California is almost a hundred percent drought free as is Nevada We have some down south but there's a lot more water coming through the southern states over the next Month or so it looks like So there should be relief there great planes definitely need some more storms But sometimes that is something that happens in the spring no smoke to speak of So don't worry about that. I wish these lined up a little smoother, but that takes a lot of work So let's take a look at these snowpack As we zip through November December January and to the present and see we got a little higher than 90 percent were at 90 percent statewide The western slopes are in the hundred and thirty percent or hundred forty percent Region where it's the eastern plains that don't have as much. So that's really good actually It's good news because that's where the water that we drink in agriculture and Grand Canyon and Colorado River and all those get their water from so another good year being a head out there Maybe I'll make that a separate slide do a western slope snowpack and a state So there's the mountain northern mountain precipitation But look how I can see all my cities here Just got a light precipitation in Colorado Springs, and it was totally dry this last week at the lower elevations for severe weather being confined to the deep south and Moving on to the east as that happens Looking at the National Forest Forecast surface map We have mountain snows and that just happens a lot We're in the pattern where mountain snow after mountain snow is going to keep happening And better snow on Thursday in the west and south Part of the state and then we get a chance of snow on Friday. Some models are about an inch or two So check out the Longmont leader for better updates on that. I'm going to go and post update tonight when I'm home Taking a look at the next 10 days though. We do have this chance of precipitation looking pretty good for Friday Question is temperatures will be cold enough for snow will come in as some rain flurries Trying to figure that out and then the week beyond we go way above normal 60s are not possible. This never really captures the real temperature because we'll get that but it's warm Lots of moisture in the atmosphere over in North America. Just a little break down here in the south Notable weather events over the next couple weeks is Friday. So this is what looks like with the Partly cut off low to our southeast Pumping moisture back in instability aloft and looking at the temperatures. They're not very cold This is not a monster cold front at all So that's why temperatures and precipitation are going to be so marginal Just not sure what we're going to get the lower elevations mountains, of course get snow Look at this blowtorch heat in Canada and in the southeast They look in the precipitation. This is Friday morning That's Friday noon and then it kind of breaks up goes away our next notable storm It's a big break. We got like a week and a half to go to February 6th and This is a monstrous trough Look at this thing comes all the way down the west coast down to southern tip of Baja and then back into the states through Texas And this is all mass of very low pressure the energy a lot of the energy is down south looking at the Precipitation it is weird the scattering. There's definitely a lot more moisture south of us because of the position that low So let's take a look at the next 14 days that this actually that goes beyond that so This animation won't show that storm quite But there's our Friday storm moving away and then watch this ridge just come in Yep I pressure you do get these little ripples that do cut through the height center here in Wyoming right around Salt Lake got stuff Coming out of the Northwest in the eastern half of the nation then the ridge progresses out by February 2nd And this next big trough that could be that storm Anything can happen. That's a long ways away for model have much accuracy But it you can see it at the us frame coming in so temperatures just above normal. It's just everywhere Here comes. This is the coolness with this weak and storm. There it is that snowpack up here and Then by the 28th, it's a cold front hitting New England, but Tremendously warm here 28 30 degrees above normal in Canada Temperatures here 12 15 20 degrees above normal. This is again snow right here But just a blowtorch basically all the way out to February 2nd And let me forget the first hint of that next system bringing cool air into California Plenty of Atmospheric moisture nationwide you just need storms to act upon it. I'm not gonna go much further than that Surface dew points are low and then after this little front comes through on Friday We get a lot more surface dry air and see the whites and the purples there So yeah, just to say we're not gonna see anything until the next next storm So let's watch this go through the end of the week and see mountain snows approaching There's the low south of us pumping a little moisture back up for a couple periods and That's it each frame is six hours. So it's about 12 hours of unsettled weather So for the next five days this has about an inch of snow to two Maybe even three around here. That seems a little overdone East and southeast of Denver four to six in a little pocket So yeah, again check long mount leader more data will be coming in this afternoon and maybe a better Hold on that for precipitation brought this back in because of the marginal temperatures the north East corners just gonna stay dry Moisture amounts are pretty light except to the southeast and east of Denver Over the next 10 days very little gets added because it doesn't quite reach out to that next storm So 50s cooling to the 40s with that storm 44 and 22 I'm giving it 50 50 chances now man And then we warm up into the 60s by the beginning of next week the thought I didn't include the January 31st February 6th or the first week of February from the National Weather Service normally do the monthly but I'm putting this thing because it is interesting They have above normal temperatures for most of the nation near normal out west and lots of precipitation above normal amounts Expected for most of the western two-thirds. So yeah, we'll see what that happens So check out one month leader calm for frequent weather updates and great news This has been chief meteorologist John insworth made it through without an interruption Wishing you to keep looking up