 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, February 2nd 2022 That's a lot of twos in a date. This is chief meteorologist John Insworth for Longmont Public Media We have a first quarter moon February 8th Tuesday next week right before we record again Of course today is groundhog day and my son's birthday and according to news reports The shadow was seen which by this lore says six more weeks of winter Yeah, well, I think statistically the groundhog has done better than a random forecast so And what six more weeks of winter really means is not well defined So yeah, the meteorologist here is going to poo poo pucks a Tony Phil. Sorry about that I did grow up in Phoenix and we had sidewinder Sam the rattlesnake and If sidewinder Sam saw his shadow, then summer starts immediately if he didn't See his shadow. It would be summer immediately Of course, how much the shadow is under a snake? Look at drought conditions. We have last week Again, this nice snowpack sitting up here. That's gonna start melting in a few months and we'll get even more relief On the plains the only thing to get a little worse was down here in the southeast corner Nothing else changed but do with this current storm. It's pulling out as I record We should see a lot more relief on the plains and I-25 front range areas Nationally not much changes a little worsening the drought northern, New Mexico near that corner of Colorado But not much else changing Looking at snow. I did not get a new snow report so you can watch over the past month or so It's still above normal, but we will have to see when the next report comes out looking at this No falls is a snow storm that hit on Wednesday for Tuesday and Wednesday of this week and Long-mine area has a peak report of nine inches Most folks are in the upper six and upper seven area. My station here is 7.3 Little lighter area out here near Boulder. It's all nine point two nine point five is eleven I think in there maybe a twelve It's hard to kind of see the numbers all on top of each other So 13 plus above Boulder here and down in Broomfield some six to sevens and eight So it was a healthy storm. We probably picked up another inch inch and a half Maybe a local two inches on Wednesday Adding to this with the temperatures down near ten All day long not far from it and going down to the negative Digits every little teeny bit of snow just helped add up So precipitation This does include liquid from Tuesday night because this is as of 7 a.m. Yeah, so I some days the front range here did the best That wasn't much of a storm up the mountains and I kind of called that with Boulder So as this part not getting much and they really did only get a two to four inches So on Wednesday here this massive storm system is Dominating the nation with snow all the way up to Canada back up to us and to Northern Arizona Mountains We have a big swath of ice going through North Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and up into the Ohio Valley And we go to the severe weather you can see the severe weather on the warm side of that front Just inching along marginal risk in the southeast and Down further into the southeast as that strong oozes along We'll watch the cold air spread out to in the animation shortly So normal high temperatures 45 normal low climbing from 17 to 19 degrees Fahrenheit See the extreme cold that we're getting on Wednesday and Thursday And then we start to come out for the weekend and stay right in the normal window for once Here's our precipitation ending on Wednesday We have a little something on the seventh little something on the ninth to the tenth But miles don't see a strong strong signal yet The next strong signal is actually beyond that we have a trough coming next Sunday So this is a week and a half away that we're with a little trough embedded in here There's not much of a ridgy nationwide is a giant ridge up here off the map and one out in the Atlantic So it's a weird pattern with really a lot of North winds pouring down back here So that will be scooped into next week's video much better But the snow with that one kind of looks like this definitely some upslope here with a low in the four corners area and So let's go to the next 10 days. This won't go as far as that storm. So here goes that trough Moving out East of the state because of the North winds we do stay cool the trough zips by to the north on in the weekend This one digs down, but it doesn't seem to interact with any moisture. So maybe that's what we see on the 8th 9th is a possibility Yeah, there's another one zipping by to so we just kind of keep with this big north northwest flow Over the next week. Here's our cold air spreading down just Sharp sharp cold front. Look at that extreme purple here as this 20 degrees below normal in Texas and away it goes Here's our snowpack in the mountains keeping air cool on the plains. We do start to warm up as that melts away And see the cold air kind of gets entrenched down here lots of warm air in the west and the great Northern Great Plains and the Great Lakes and then this next front comes in on February 11th Blasting down, but it's aim is much further to the east coast like that Here goes our storm leaving. You can see the ice and Texas and Into the southeast and then some severe weather ahead of that And I'm gonna cut this short because nothing really affects Colorado over the next week. It's just very quiet For the next five days, this is the moisture from the departing storm It's just when I had to pull the map same thing with the snow. It's still overnight Wednesday, we'll be getting some more snow down here in the southern mountains Next ten days hardly changes at all a little bit more snow in the mountains, but not much at all So we just warm up from here starting in the negative digits Wednesday and Thursday single digits Thursday into Friday and daytime temperatures finally getting to the 40s cool down with that passing trough on Sunday and then Normal temperatures next week pretty much dry all the way through at least for the lower plains So for frequent weather updates local news check out longmontleader.com This has been Chief Meteorologist John Ensworth. Keep looking up