 This is your weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, January 13th 2021 I'm chief meteorologist John is worth for a long long public media almost got it. All right Wednesday, January 13th big beginning of this weather forecast period. We have the new moon So nothing to see out there at night checking in on drought conditions from the end of 2020 to this week Again, not much change at all, but if you look at the end of last year Nationally, we see some long-term drought Some pretty severe drought conditions in West Texas and if you go forward a week There's been some significant rains down there and out on the plains helping to alleviate drought there Yeah, I was seeing rain get it come into the Pacific Northwest If you go back and then forward again, it doesn't show up much in the drought data yet We got some relief around here with a storm that performed a little better than I thought About twice as much snow as I called for I was about in the inch and a half area We got three to even four inches around so maybe even three times Performance over my prediction looking at the oranges. That's roughly four to five inches scattered along here and the dark greens are roughly one and a half to four inches Zooming in on Boulder County. We have three and a half three and a half out west of town just north of town about Two and a half to three inches Boulder area sought to five there's four over here some three and a half inch Snowfall amounts through there. So yeah, some some good snow came in over the weekend Okay, in the amount of precipitation you can see why this storm over performed and it was a very narrow band almost exactly a long night 25 So here we got a quarter to a half inch Just in this little strip go up into the mountains very far Nothing and on the plains that faded off pretty quickly areas around Pueblo and Colorado Springs and South did pretty well as well So now we are dealing with a passing Trough in the upper atmosphere and the beginning of our forecast period here for Wednesday Thursday This sharp trough here is bringing in very strong winds. We had a mountain wave cloud sitting over the front range on Wednesday And we have a high wind warning for most locations except Central and eastern Denver and up in the mountains. So winds could gust as high as 60 miles per hour So my trash can got knocked over Okay, looking at the next seven days. Here's Friday through Friday There's our normal high temperature of 44 Normal low temperatures dropping from 18 to 17 But we're pretty much at the bottom here. It doesn't doesn't drop much more in February and the temperatures bounce around a lot We have definitely cool days and warmer days, but it stays right in that envelope very nicely You certainly do see a much greater increase in precipitation chances in a number of events So a Thursday to Friday little hint of something Sorry in a Sunday a little bit better Still many model runs don't bring precipitation to Denver's is the actual airport And then it's Monday through Wednesday that we get a much better chance of rain and snow So let's put the maps into motion. Here's the Wednesday and a Thursday trough coming down It digs a very deep low pressure system over the Ohio Valley with a ridge out the West warming us up And the trough comes in for Saturday Sunday, but you can see it's kind of open and zips on by then we finally get a trough digging in on Monday And to Tuesday slows down a little bit Got a cut off low of Arizona, Las Vegas, Southern, California and a Wednesday and we have a trough kind of Kicking a little bit with it before it reconnects and pulls on through next week So you can see we do have energy for Precipitation, so let's take a look at that precipitation and it's not all together impressive. We have the weekend I'm sorry the Thursday Snows in the mountains that moves out and the weekend here comes a little ripple and if you don't look at it Put it off you miss it. It's just there for about six hour window They're going into Monday into Tuesday definitely north of us there's more And then it kind of shifts focus down into New Mexico, Arizona Not a lot happens right around Denver or Longmont or Collins So over the next six days the mountains definitely do better with some areas getting six eight inches locally 10 out of the plains not much Looking at 10 days. It sees a lot more activity coming up But that's pretty far out. So we're into a lot of stock in that at this time. That's interesting to look at over the next week We bounce from the 50s to the 40s and back And you have like the cooler weather right around Martin Luther King day with a chance of snow For local news take out a look at log mount leader along leader calm and there are frequent weather updates there This is Ben chief meteorologist John insworth keep looking up