 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, May 5th. I'm still in the remote location Chief meteorologist John Insworth for Longmont Public Media Tuesday, May 11th is our new moon with moon rising and setting very close to sunrise and sunset time Nothing to see there Look at drought conditions from last week to this week things haven't changed much But a whole bunch more water has come down. We've gotten over an inch in many locations So we are definitely going to see this map change But the good news is right around here and up into Larimer County We are in drought-free conditions and overall the eastern plains, especially the northeast is improved greatly Nationally not much to see change much a little Lessening of the long-term drought region. That's with the same relief in the Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas intersection region And speaking of moisture we had a prolonged period of rain from Sunday into Tuesday And so for the first period up to Monday. We had about a half inch around Longmont Two-thirds of an inch in some places and up to an inch to an inch and a half across much of Boulder Going to the next morning and he picked up another about third of an inch with Boulder getting up about four tenths of an inch almost a half inch of liquid Look at the last seven days half inch to Three-quarters of an inch or the light greens dark greens take you up to an inch and a half of water over the area This is fantastic. Now We saw that the western slopes are still very dry and down in the southwest also needs moisture And that did not happen this last seven days, but we'll keep an eye on it is the next few systems move through Looking at Thursday noon We have our giant ridge coming in to bring the heat back and we have northwest flow aloft And they've been watching this channel for a while Northwest flow allows little ripples to come through interact with moisture at the surface and kickoff storms, especially in the afternoon Especially in the spring and the summer So that's kind of what we have coming from this middle week at the beginning of this forecast period Look at Thursday afternoon You can see the orientation of the precipitation is northwest to southeast little trains of Thunderstorm or really shower activity Trialing around and some of it could hit Longmont and northeastern Colorado Look at the next ten days the normal low temperature rising from 39 to 42 the normal high from 67 to 71 Very spring-like and the actual temperatures will stay on the cool side at the beginning of that Northwest flow As the ridge passes we go abnormally warm and then we have more troughiness coming in next week with general showers again, so we're in a more wet-than-not pattern and the amount of moisture in the air on Tuesday morning with fog due and like that really shows a change over the last year So over the next ten days we have that ridge moving into the western US By Friday it's passing over giving us super heat here comes the next system digging in cut-off low and the flow For the weekend this one's getting here a little earlier. It seems each storm settles in about a half a day or so a day earlier Monday into Tuesday Deep trough digging up down to the southwest it crosses and ejects on Wednesday with another little ripple Coming in behind it, so generally unsettled generally cool weather through next Friday Looking at temperatures our current pool of cool air finally gets pushed away Friday into Saturday That ridge comes over There comes the cool air associated with the next system while cold front spreads down on Sunday That seems familiar Pressing down into Texas and then some pretty chilly air for the beginning of next week cold air stays Pushed up against the mountains into Wednesday, and then finally begins to leave near the end of the week Looking at precipitation we have that Northwest trending south East trending precipitation pattern at the beginning Going into the weekend. We see some showers and thunderstorms form and move off the low to the Southeast pushes moisture briefly up for the weekend. There's some rain and snow in the Monday Tuesday the next week stretching on into Wednesday before it begins to move out So we kind of have this pattern going the cut-off lows roll through with strong, but kind narrow ridges in between Looking at the snowfall That next system does look a little cooler And so we see at least a trace of snow out to sterling up to Cheyenne and then just West of the interstate Maybe it's a half inch Maybe it's an inch or two of snow and Longmont mountains picking up another good hit Western slopes southwest still not getting it looking at precipitation We're in the inch to inch and a half to two inch area for Water equivalent over the next ten days each time that's been overdone these systems we end up Like we saw there less just a little less than an inch But still closer an inch is a fantastic amount of water for this part of the nation This early part of the spring But nonetheless inch and a half to two inches is an indication this is going to be a very similar system Probably run an inch for Longmont my 25 So we start cool Wednesday 60s we warm rapidly to the 70s on Thursday 80s on Friday We cool back down next week you can see temperatures at night almost getting down to freezing with a really good chance of Sunday and a Monday precipitation and Looking into we have a new month heaven new months to look at the May outlook from Noah Has above normal Temperatures now looking back that was also forecasted for April and it turned out to be pretty close to normal We had some real heat at times. We also had prolonged cool periods So that wasn't the greatest forecast for April looking at precipitation They had us significantly below normal for April and we ended up significantly above normal So that was a complete bust and precipitation in the last month outlook this month they have us at Near normal trending towards dry especially in the southwestern part of the state which if that verifies It's not great news for the drought for frequent weather updates and Discussion check out Longmont leader as well as local Longmont news This has been chief meteorologist John insworth. Keep looking