 Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, December 7th. I'm Chief Meteorologist John Ensworth The next lunar phase is Thursday December 15th. We had a full moon on Wednesday Recording this just a little late things were a little crazy. It was kind of fun that the full moon did cross over Mars last night So I had a little star party out in the observatory and got to see all that going on You could see the moon approaching The planet that quickly so I'll have to repeat this one next time because it'll be in the next Week as well The Sun's really active right now and they're facing us. There's possibilities for some big geomagnetic storms so yeah, lots of stuff if you have a Safe way to view the Sun. This would be an interesting time to take a peek at it Looking at drought conditions things got a little better in northern Colorado we finally have an update here and Nationally, there's been a little relief on the plains in the mountains and in the West as you go from last week to this against snow our Progressing through we're just a tiny bit above normal now a hundred and six percent. So this is great We're just tracking along with normal keep getting snows Perceptation as promise stayed in the mountains and pretty significant amounts of water here two to three inches of liquid in the yellow and higher Even the greens here are half inch of moisture So great on the plains not so much, but that probably will change a little bit looking at Convection possibilities nothing really in Colorado for the next three days. Nothing severe nationwide There is this ongoing hits of Western Mountain snows Going to Thursday a little bit of mountain snow Friday or dry That's nothing really smoke wise nationwide either Our normal temperatures are starting to level out for the winter 43 to 42 is the high Temperature drop 17 to 17. So I'm not dropping anymore. I think it goes down another degree Maybe in January February or two. Let's take a look at that next time We do have a sign of a pretty good storm at school here This is the first day of finals on my Monday into Tuesday next week Looking at the water vapor satellite we have a subtropical jet coming in through here we got the polar jet up north and A little swirl here. That's what was causing some snow Flurries and snow showers up along the northern part of Colorado Wyoming border But it's not much. It's just kicking off the snow in the Western Mountains as well So that's what looks like Wednesday noon. It's a little ripple jet stream I see pretty good jet stream winds a lot so the clouds are kind of moving quickly The next significant system is this huge cutoff low. We'll see it in the animation. It's really interestingly large I haven't seen a pattern like that. I can remember strong jet on the Front side of it the low goes right over a long Tuesday and there's snow wrapping around a surface low And that time is in northern Kansas So, yep, this looks like a pretty good one Further out and this is in fantasy world and this is how many days that's about 15 days from now Two weeks more. That's Christmas Eve or Christmas Eve Eve a big funny looking trough coming in and snow for the the state so we might If you count a white Christmas is having a snowpack on the ground It's looking really good for that if you have to have falling snow on Christmas day or even Christmas Eve night or something Maybe not. I think this storm will be out I just looked at the latest data and it's not quite as impressive as this. It's a little More focused to the southern half of the state, but still some snow showers on the 23rd into the 24th Morning are looking like a thing So let's put this into motion. Here's our first ripple going by Going into the weekend. We get this little ridging happening Another trough goes by on the weekend, but it's energy is way up north and then we get ridging for warm temperatures again There is we're going to sunday into Monday this big bowling ball begins to form out west and cut off and Roll slowly over the state that allows us to get more moisture in with the slow living But look how look how many concentric circles are here Jet streamers are nowhere to be seen. So crazy Then going into the 17th things really become more zonal west to east another deep south ripple here Starts over so circuit temperatures nothing really cold happens until that Thursday storm That's how Tuesday storm moves in you can see really above normal temperatures down in the southern part of the nation There's some cold up here in Canada unusual coldness But it's not till Tuesday that that starts to finally fill in and run over the state and push out onto the planes the old Gloss of spilled milk kind of and you can see the cold front that making it down into the Gulf Really good source of cold air there And that's some 17th you get a reinforcing shot of cold on these 18th All right, so let's take a look at the snow. Here's our Wednesday into Thursday things slipping on by to the north off it goes for Friday Saturday that next ripple went by but there just isn't much moisture with that at all Here's that big bowling balls Starting to form in the West snow in Utah a lot crazy and on Tuesday. It comes on in and Northeastern Colorado gets a pretty good hit. So at least a few inches and Then it rolls very slowly out lots of Wrap around to our north if that drifts a little bit for the south We could get extra day a very light snow. There's another blob for the 17th All right, and taking a look at the next five days moisture-wise it's all in the West and up here north of the border a Little bit of snow and almost all of that In the next ten days This is just over a quarter of an inch of moisture not quite a half inch of moisture I'd be great if that really all comes the amount of snow is in the two to three inch area three to four inch area Boulder a little bit more That's in the five to six inch Category so yeah, this this could be one that definitely slows you down driving around So 40s and 50s through the weekend Sunday very warm with 56. That's that ridging going by And then the temperature drops are you stable or freezing with that at this point a pretty good chance of snow Might even this point bump up to 70 80% chance Longmont leader Brewingfield leader has Frequent weather updates and lots of local news. So check those out. This has been weather forecast Chief meteorologist John insworth saying keep looking up Almost forgot my catchphrase