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Forecast Discussion:
I'll update this post later in the day Tuesday with actual snowfall amounts, but it looks like I received 1.5" of snow in NE Longmont. We'll be a bit chilly today but warmer than Monday. The front is still sitting off to our west (Figure 1) but the core of the cold air is drifting east.
The upper level pattern this week will again be a large ridge to our west or overhead (the blue line in Figure 2). We should see 60'sF, or nearly that warm, by the end of the week.
Midday update: Longmont received just a bit over and under 1" from this last storm (following a glaze of freezing rain/ice). See Figure 1a.
The longer range forecast:
Then our next storm comes in Saturday. This pattern by then is almost the exact flip of the week ahead of it (Figure 3). A rather strong trough is moving in from the west and models are getting excited about snow (but we've seen THAT before!).
For fun, the GFS paints Longmont with 3-4" of snow by later Saturday (Figure 4). I might invest in Bitcoin before putting money on this though. <grin> Enjoy the warm up in the meantime.
