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Forecast Discussion:
Merry Christmas (to those who are reading online news today... I'll post this a bit early on Christmas Eve night for those putting bicycles together...)
There will be light snow falling in the western slopes of our state and a few spots way out on the Plains, but things should be dry around Longmont (we do have 2% chance of blow-over flurries Christmas morning) (Figure 1). We do climb to the mid-40'sF again today (a bit above average).
The longer range forecast:
The models are trending the storm further south leaving us out of the snow-fun. Figure 2 shows meager chances of snow late Christmas night through Thursday AM. That is, at least, good for holiday travel.
Looking out further, Figure 2 shows snow around the New Year period, but we've seen big storms 8-10 days out fade away before in this season. It sure could happen again. This is weatherunderground's model, the GFS (Figure 3) has good snows down in AZ, NM, TX and southern CO - Longmont is skipped, for the most part, through the start of 2019. Hmmm.
