 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, January 25th, 2023. This is chief meteorologist John Enzerth for Longmont Public Media. First quarter moon is upcoming Saturday, but probably not going to see it because of clouds. The sun is active in the northern hemisphere, so it's a really big rolling away from us around the limb. Looking at drought conditions, a lot of the western and central Colorado is completely drought-free. A little dryness slipped into the central part of the state, but we still have a snowpack that's got a melt and that will make a difference. Looking nationally, there's just less drought in the east and the west. Not much change in the Great Plains. Looking at our snow, it's hard to make this animate smoothly because it comes out differently every time. But here we are on the 25th, and 128% statewide are great. We're above normal. Let's make it over this peak and get all the water we can. Speaking of water, we had half inch to an inch of mountains out of the plains. That's great. This is the dry area around the springs, dry in there, so hold that off a little. Severe weather on the east coast and no thunderstorms for a couple of days. We do have some cold air heading into the nation, some snow in the mountains here. There's a severe weather for Wednesday. More snow across the northern tier states and the western slopes. And then on Friday, western slopes again. No smoke really to speak of. Nice. The next 10 days, we are still below normal, 44 to 45, so the normals are starting to rise. We've hit the climatological bottom and we're inching up now. But not in reality. The normality started on Monday and Tuesday. We get into brutal temperatures below freezing. And we have a pretty good chance there's lots of agreement in the ensemble for precipitation. There you can see the flow coming in, the big trough of the west, and the highlights for the animation coming up in a second are trough passing on Saturday. Another one digging up there. Micro ridges here, a big ridge over here in the west. East or east. And on Saturday we have a pretty good amount of snow. Now the Sunday-Monday storm last week totally evaporated, went way down into New Mexico rather than hitting Colorado. So it's not impossible that this could happen again. So Thursday is the next one. This is a deep southern branch storm. It goes all the way into northern Mexico with snow in Mexico. So that's really, I just want to highlight that interesting thing. There's a low way down here. Next Saturday noon I have another low coming in, so more than a week and a half away. So very, very unreliable right now. But it has lots of up-slope flow snow again. So let's take a look at the overall reason we're staying so cold. And along almost this northern flow we have almost, around the northern winds, except when colder comes in on a trough. There's a passing trough on Saturday Sunday. There's the one that's going to dig down, down, down, so across this California giving them some activity. And there it goes. Got to keep an eye on the tide here. Doing okay. There it is. Look how far deep down that goes. So that should not do much to us, just we're on the northern side of the gut stream with cold air. Just next weekend's possibly fantasy low pressure coming down again. Alright, it's looking cold air and warm air, unusually warm departing the east, cold front coming through. And then you're going to start to see the purples up here with really brutal arctic air. It comes ashing down the eastern plains on Saturday Sunday and Monday, very, very cold. You already saw, we'll see negative lows. And it's so shallow that it really has a hard time getting over the mountains. There's never really a point that the mountains aren't hovering around normal or even above normal in spots. And then that plunges all the way down into Mexico for next weekend. So let's watch these snow storms. Wednesday's a little bit of snow is departing there. Here comes the Friday edge of the cold air. We have a low way up here, drops down, and we get snow on the north side for a little bit. There goes the rain and snow over California, they do need a break. After all the drought it's hard to say that, but true, there's the storm going way down into Mexico, wrapping around, getting gulf moisture in, snow in west and central Texas, even Delos for Worthley, ice and snow, over rock, places like that. And our strong next weekend comes in, maybe, and across the slowly dives south. So the next five days, maybe about a quarter of an inch or less, along I-25, and maybe two to three inches of snow, with northern mountains getting a little more. The next 10 days it's still, well, a quarter inch to half inch amount of liquid with good amounts of northern mountains, good snow up there, but it's still the three or four inch contour, five inch for near Boulder, so it's not huge. You may see snow falling for a few days, but it's going to be very, very cold, very, very light, fluffy snow. So 30s, 40s going to the end of the week, maybe get a little melt, maybe, put a few roads clear on the side streets. Then Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday it's just cold, and some pretty good chances of at least light snow, negatives, possibly single-digit temperatures on Monday. You just don't get a lot of snow, but it's not cold. So, frequent weather updates are found at Longmont Leader, Broomfield Leader, and lots of local news. Check those out. This has been Chief Mural, just John Insworth, keep looking up.