 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday August 23rd 2023. That's kind of fun This is chief meteorologist John is worth for a long month public media Tomorrow Thursday the 24th will be the first quarter moon looking beautiful in the evening sky as moisture Returns to the state Sun is still quite active with a Large number of mainly northern hemisphere sunspots facing earth Draw conditions are slightly worsened in the southwest Hopefully this moisture coming in will help that Looking nationally. We have a relief of the drought in the Midwest and a little worsening of the drought in Texas It's not really hot. So I'm get a lot of evaporation that way Smoke-wise we have fires Obviously ongoing in Canada. They really need a pattern change for that Bring in the rains So there's some smoke just about everywhere nationwide and you've seen the haze out there And we've had air quality alerts and like that. We're not even in the close to the worst of it for the precipitation of the last week Still mainly eastern plains northeastern corner and that was wandering thunderstorms So some people got a lot and places like Walnut got almost nothing looking at the animation quotes of severe weather climatology We've obviously passed the peak back in June Going through July You see the chances really drop and here we are in the fourth week of August and we have the lowest category of Sphere weather chances and looking at the actual forecast for Wednesday Chance of convection, but the severe stuff is far away Still far away on Thursday and just chance of thunderstorms nothing really severe on Friday Look at the National Weather Service forecast map for Wednesday. We do have a chance of storms precipitation heavy flooding rains far south in New Mexico Then the chance of flooding level rains from thunderstorms actually hits our little drought area somewhat on Thursday And then moves into the northeast and central part of The state for Friday, so we really should get quite wet Take a look at the ensemble. Look how fast the normals are dropping it from 86 to 83 57 to 53 in just those 10 days at the beginning of September fall is getting ready to happen The ensembles have very high chances of precipitation here on Friday Saturday and even Sunday Monday here and our first blob here is a I don't know what you call it It was it was a topical system and it moved across and moved into South Texas and the little swirl from that low is now On the New Mexico, Arizona border drawing in tropical moisture starting to moisten up the state And there's a cold front coming down that's gonna interact with that so Thursday morning the ridge that's been sitting over the Southwest moves out to Arkansas Oklahoma area that little low ripples coming through and that's gonna help kick off these enhanced showers You can see the precipitation on Thursday morning associated with that low Sunday is starting to Sunday midnight There's the tea sorry it changes when I put on broadcast mode The ridge is back here, but we have this front interacting with the moisture that's around and lots of precipitation expected Let's put this emotion. Here's the high center out here in just a big southerly flow in the West Going into Saturday and Sunday is a ripple there over Colorado Then the high kind of reforms to our West with Northwest flow Northwest flow will should keep us a little cooler and You can also get those ripples in the flow that kick off random thunderstorms when the heating is right The highs back here on the Colorado River around Las Vegas Then by the first to kind of drift into Southeast Colorado but still Northwest flow is the Overall pattern over Colorado so taking a look at temperatures. We have rain-cooled air here without low and the cloudiness associated with that here comes the cold front Cooling mainly on the Connell divide in eastward heat in the west still Thunderstorms cooling things off by Sunday Monday, and then another little shot of cold air coming down the plains that just backs up To the mountains again for a midweek So interesting we're starting to see that's a pretty good cold front hitting the eastern part of the nation Looking at precipitable water. We are above average in the West and that's gonna allow these storms to Get what they need to be storms. There's a tropical system down here. We'll talk about that in just a little bit So yeah, I'm going through Sunday Monday, August 28th And then to the beginning we don't dry out until around Wednesday, August 30th surface two points are very healthy and Continue to hover in the upper 40s and lower 50s and we go on the Friday Saturday those 60 dew points here. So lots of moisture lots lots of precipitation is possible Going into Monday next week 28th We got dry air on the West a little bit 40s dew points There's 30s in the mountain in the western slopes by the 30th And so things do time to dry out there's 30s and lower 40 dew points by Friday September 1st, so all the real good precipitation is going to happen this weekend at the beginning of next week So let's watch that precipitation come on up into Friday morning Kind of continues much of the day on Friday into Saturday And then reforms again for sorry afternoon There's Sunday afternoon more storms and precipitation and Monday more in the mountains and then shifting south of us Big hurricane off the coast here, but staying out to sea right now by the end of next week We do see drier conditions So over the next five days some mountains could get inch and a half to even three inches around Colorado Springs and up in the hills We're about half inch to three quarters of an inch long i-25 here four columns down to Denver Not quite three quarters of an inch At the next 10 days and the mountains get a little bit more nothing else seems to really change on the map So we end our 90s for now as we finish Thursday And Friday's quite cool 71 with rain Very likely Saturday still cool tries to warm up on Sunday and then cools back down on Monday And it's we're just about normal seasonal temperatures for Tuesday Let's quickly take a look at what's happening out in the ocean the Atlantic did turn on as far as hurricanes Are here's tropical strong Franklin Forming you know the Dominican Republic drifting up here expected to become a hurricane scare people in the Bermudas. Oh, you know not the Bahamas Bermuda but uh right now far from us mainland further out is cyclone Emily dying and then we have post tropical cyclone Gert just wandering around and dying there right now So nothing too exciting just some activity I'll take a look at Longmont leader and Broomfield leader for local news This has been chief meteorologist John Insworth. Keep looking out