 Welcome to the weather forecast for the wait beginning Wednesday, January 26th. I'm Chief Meteorologist John Insworth for Longmont Public Media. Monday the 31st is a new moon, rising and setting about the same time as the sun does. So we've gone from the 31st being a full moon, we've now precessed two weeks off and we have that phase occurring at the end of the month from the Halloween a couple years ago. We've got drought conditions in Colorado, we have much better things going on in the mountains, there's much less drought and now a little bit got nipped out around the Denver area so that's good. Nationally the west gets a little bit of relief as does the southern plains. Looking at the snowpack over the last few weeks and see it start out just in middle of December way below normal. It climbed very rapidly, shot above normal. It's kind of leveled off and the curve is coming up to needed of what is normal but we're still above normal. So 116 percent normal value statewide and you can see it was a little drier. We certainly did get snow yesterday, Tuesday, but it wasn't a lot of water. It was about a quarter of an inch of liquid over most areas east of the continental divide and you can see a little bit there, half inch to an inch in some spots in the mountains. So our next storm is right on its heels coming in for Thursday morning just after this video goes up, big trough moving pretty quickly through across the nation and you can see a period of snow just about like the last one, maybe a little less moisture with it coming in Thursday morning but it will make the commute all slushy and difficult again. Here's the snow forecast and we have another system down in Texas bringing snow and even rain further south. Nationally we have a small chance of conviction in Florida and right on the coast, I don't know if they put that there just so there'd be some green but the next day there are no thunderstorms forecast. We're drying warm through the weekend as you'll see in a moment but the next storm looks bigger. This looks like a more prolonged and wetter storm event and so yeah we're going to take a look at that in just a moment. So here's the normal temperatures rising a degree from 44 to 45, 17 for the normal low for the next 10 day period. There goes our Tuesday chance of showers and a really good chance of precipitation on Thursday. Next week Tuesday a few Thursday look at all the different runs or a little bit different agreement. These are 30 different runs of the GFS but the overall evidence is it's going to be stormy for a few days. So let's put that in motion. There goes our Tuesday storm. Here comes our Thursday trough. Kind of narrow trough so it's moving pretty quickly. Giant ridge right behind it moves in for the weekend making it pretty comfortable. It's going to be a beautiful weekend and then we have a low slip by south of us but the ridge is still dominant and then on Tuesday here comes a much deeper larger trough. It gets a reinforcing trough on the back side that almost makes it look like it comes to a halt and then reverses direction before moving on. Another little shot there before it pulls away at the end of the week so let's take a look at the temperatures. We have our cold air from Tuesday sinking down to Texas then on Friday the next shot of cold air slides down and goes down into Mexico. For the weekend we warm up really nicely. Good deal above normal this is a snowpack in here making it colder than normal and then the next shot is giant. This one really covers the nation. Look how sharp that cold front is on the leading edge shooting across Texas. Temperature is far below normal in the middle of the nation. Another shot comes down on Friday on the back side of that trough. You can see it push against the mountains before it starts to slide away. The east is going to freeze so let's take a look at this snow. There goes Tuesday's storm. Here comes Thursday's storm but it's a short duration like 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. or so and then it's away. Giant east coast low cranky up blizzard like conditions and horrible stuff in New England and then take a look at Monday. Here comes the cold air out of the Canada and the Tuesday Wednesday. It kind of pulls it away a little bit faster. There's an additional little shot near the end of the week as a little more colder slides by. So active patterns over the next five days. Melted precipitation should be 10th of an inch or so on average and just around the mountains where you get the up slope flow and snow from this storm looks like one to three inches along I-25 and in the foothills. It's not a big storm but it will make timing and the cold temperatures will make it rough on Thursday morning. Over the next 10 days we get to scoop in a little bit of that next storm. You can see a quarter inch to half inch liquid amounts and more significant snow. 5, 6, 8 inches of snow near Boulder Westside Denver and up in the foothills above Fortin Collins. So yeah this will be more notable and we'll see how it evolves. It could yeah of course as far I'll go either way it could fade away or lose its moisture or could become something even more significant. So it's just something to watch for next week. So that we are 30s going into the 40s. I even see some 50s on the weekend maybe and then we shoot back down to freezing and below with a good chance of snow Tuesday. We do have a figure outlook. It came out so why not show it? For the temperatures they're giving the southern eastern part of the nation above average chances for above normal temperatures and crazy equal chances here and below up there. That next 10 days really cold air out there doesn't seem to match that pattern but we'll see what the overall month turns out as for precipitation equal chances for us drier than normal chances down below us. For frequent weather updates local news check out Longmont leader and Broomfield leader at those.coms. This has been Chief Neural Justice John Insworth. Keep looking up.