 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, February 28th, 2024. This is chief meteorologist John Ensworth Looking at a leap year February tomorrow Sunday, March 3rd. We got a third quarter moon visible in the early morning sky Sunspots big one didn't blast earth like it could have and it's now rotating away from us interesting lineup of Foreign row here. It was even a more straight line a couple days ago That's just a weird coincidence Looking at drought conditions drought has lessened slightly in the northern mountains and a little bit in the southwest But not much change looking better across all the planes that were all over the last month or two Looking nationally again a little less drought in the southwest We got the big fire in Texas one of the largest fires in Texas history With the smoke there, but it's not affecting Colorado Looking at the snowpack kind of zip through January and February And Getting into it Try to stop. We are right here. It's 96% statewide and it's you know, that's really good. That's very close to the median so All right We'd like to get above and get some surplus or feed the Colorado, but not so far that has not happened Precipitation wise we do have more water that went into the mountains For severe weather we have some convection way down south and out in the east and moves across Texas the next day And into the south but nothing severe Looking nationally. We were dry here got that storm down in the the uh, Mexico border passing along Snow far south of the state and then for Friday the next system is approaching, but it's not here yet So looking at temperatures to go from 50 to 53 for a normal high So that's nice. We're out of the 40s and we're out of the teens 22 to 25 or creeping back up to the freezing mark We have the weekend not much expected next week a lot of model confusion. In fact, you'll see Just in a day my graphic doesn't show a Tuesday snowstorm. So Here's water vapor got the deep south storm another one down here and the next one gathering in the pacific northwest So The next event for us is sunday noon. It looks like rain showers temperatures in the 50s Maybe a bit of snow if it comes down a little harder mountains get a little more snow Then a deeper trough hits Tuesday And a pretty good shot of upslope snow, but it's going to be moving fast And so far we've had a number of storms this far out that have just kind of faded We've gotten a little precipitation and wind and not much so We'll see if it's a fade storm or not So let's take a look at everything in motion. We got the big ridge giving us abnormally warm temperatures again. Here comes the trough sinking in the west And for sunday, there's a little ripple that comes through And then the trough begins to sharpen up some by Tuesday it digs through the state And then lifts up into the great lakes in a way to canada Behind that there's another system, but again, this is changing a lot each model one looks very different The end of the week another deep trough coming in I just wouldn't wouldn't put a lot of confidence in that for temperatures Here's our abnormal warmth under the ridge. You have that storm deep south with cool air with it By sunday watch closely here. We have air colder air coming in right here But just barely comes through if like the front seems to stop along the interstate Tuesday the colder air does finally break through push down into texas and the entire western part of the nation gets chilly And thursday friday, there was the confusion about the next system after that again I won't wouldn't be very confident about that for water vapor not much to see in this Normally, I don't play this through the winter but does illustrate the storms So here's saturday. We have dry conditions sunday a little bit of moisture in there Yeah, a little bit there. It's just not much then the dry air comes down looking at dew points I'm just going to look at sunday because it's even less important or less Notable for tuesday this little ribbon of moisture that comes through on sunday And a very dry air comes in so yeah So let's take a look at the precipitation for friday into Saturday morning Saturday noon There's saturday sunday storm a lot to the south It does sit there for a little bit then the snow builds across the plains briefly It's like a 12 hour period and then it's away Wednesday noon Thursday noon is a low forming What's it going to do rain snow right there then snow backs over a little bit Really uncertain forecast So over the next five days mountain precipitation not much on long eye 25 Next five days for snow Mountains again next 10 days some precipitation goes out on the plains and we might see a few inches Especially west of interstate 25 So fifties and sixties saturday almost 70. Oh wow and then way too warm for much snow along the plains And then this could become an actual monday night tuesday snow storm and could even be significant snow So put an x through that it's just how much the models are changing It's a new month. So outlook we have equal chances according to the weather service of above or below normal temperatures And above normal chances of precipitation So check out long month later for frequent weather updates and great local news This has been chief neologist wishing you to keep looking up