 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, January 11th, 2023. This is Chief Meteorologist John Ensworth for Longmont Public Media. Our last quarter moon hits on Saturday, January 14th, so you've got to go out in the morning sky to see that. Sun is still very active in the southern hemisphere this week, so lots of fun sunspots and aurora. Looking at the hydrology of the state, it is an amazing story. So we had drought free up through here. I've normally dried and moderate drought out here, severe drought further out and a lot of the drought conditions have gone away, including the headwaters of the Colorado. So excellent news there. Nationwide, same thing. We see a lot of decreasing drought in the west and also see the end of the video today. We should see a lot of this just totally vanish hot west. The plains just do remain dry, but they're the only ones. Let's take a look at the snowpack as we go along each time. We're a little bit below, a little bit above, week by week, and then we've got our first and second big storms. So I think that's it. Yep, that was it. I'm going to go back. So we are now at 125% of the snowpack and doing very well. Let's keep it up. The moisture has been fantastic over the last seven days. Again, almost everything on the western slopes, I-25 and the southeast plains kind of dry. For severe weather over the next few days, there is a system moving through the southeast and then off the coast, nothing out west. Looking at Wednesday's storm, we have a very weak storm along I-25 with some more precipitation on the northeast plains and tons in the mountains, many, many inches. That clears out completely by Thursday and we're still dry by Friday. No smoke to speak of except from Florida and northern Mexico. A normal high temperatures level at 44, a normal low drops a degree, just kind of these bump around a little bit with January favorite before they start to really climb. Here's our Wednesday showers and then some unsettled and cooler weather kind of in the mid and later part of the week, but nothing big and organized at this point. So here's the Tuesday satellite image with, this is water vapor satellite with the approaching system and then this is it passing on Wednesday, making some light snow showers. I didn't make a big deal about this because it really pretty much all melted or coated some grass or old snow, but it was minor. Saturday we have a gigantic ridge right over us taking us up close to the 60s for, so we should see some good melt from that, but then by Sunday night a general troughiness comes in and a ripple goes by more to our south. So the precipitation is kind of south and south and west of us and west. If that changes, we can get a little bit more on Sunday night. So let's put this in motion. This is the Wednesday storm heading off. Here comes the weekend ridge from Friday into Saturday, the next trough, it kind of goes up the slope of the ridge until this one cuts in on Monday, Sunday night Monday, and then there's something big here for Tuesday as it approaches again pretty far to the south of us. Here's Wednesday next week when the next video comes out. We got a general trough in the west cooling us down with another system that looks like it rolls right through the four corners. As for temperatures, we remain above normal for most of this time period. In fact, a lot of the nation does. There's a little coolness coming down here, but this is quite a deal above normal and the reds and pinks going into the weekend, and there's our really warm Saturday and Sunday. Another Pacific system comes in and kind of cools things on Sunday Monday, but really not on the eastern side of the Rockies. There's that next system coming in Wednesday into the west, but by the time it gets here it really doesn't cross the mountains much. We're down to about normal rather than cold. So precipitation, there goes the Wednesday storm out and away, we're high and dry for the weekend. Looking at Saturday into Sunday, there's the next system coming and it tries to get going. The log goes right through the Oklahoma Panhandle and lifts away and northeast planes kind of get skipped. There's Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday, there's a system that crashes against the mountains, and then finally Thursday into Friday something comes in that might actually put some snow on the planes by the end of next week, but that's so far out that that could be a fantasy. Long range does not look great on these models. Cold storms become the point exactly between two storms by the time you get there. So the next five days, very light precipitation along the I-25 corridor, more water for the mountains, snow very light again here, but some in the mountains up to eight, 12 inches in spots, favored spots, more, a lot more moisture in the western slopes, and finally a little bit on the I-25 corridor for the next 10 days, but it's not much. It's the snow, so talking less than two inches over 10 days, northeast planes get a little bit of a hit and the mountains just get clobbered with up to two feet of snow. So we rise quickly up to the 50s by the end of the week, 60s for Saturday, just about, and settle into the 40s at the beginning of next week with a little chance of that shower later then. I'm going to end with a look at this California rain, actually the whole West Coast rain fall. The last 30 days of rain and you see the pinks and purples here are 6 to 10 inches and the white is 20 inches or more of water. It's not snow, that's water. If you look at the next about 17 days, the yellows there are up in the 12 to 24 inches of water. So again, drought, goodbye. You're going to see a lot of flooding and ongoing flooding and some difficulties with all that. Overfreaker weather updates and local news, Longmont Leader, I'm Broomfield Leader. I'm found over there in the type written form. This has been Chief Mayor of just John Innsworth, keep looking up.