In Brief:
Snow totals and a real warm up coming!
Wednesday Update:
Confession, I thought THIS storm would be quite minor as well. It turned out to be more significant than major models supported until overnight before the snow began. Figures 1 update and 2 update show that Longmont received about 3.5 inches over a day of time. The snow compacted and melted so there never was more than about 1-2 inches on the ground at one time. Still, travel was a mess!
We now warm up quickly and "may" get close to or break 80F Monday/Tuesday next week. More later!
End Wednesday update:
Forecast Discussion:
We get another beautiful weekend (except for wind and fire danger at times). A cold front arrives Monday afternoon with a rapid drop in temperatures and increase in precipitation chances (Figure 1). It should start out as rain changing to snow overnight. You can see the cold front and approaching precipitation in Figure 2. At present we should see 1-2 inches along I-25. I'll update here if snow amounts look like they will pile up more (like our last storm).
The Longer Range Forecast:
A second, and at present smaller, storm arrives on Wednesday/Thursday (of course - Figure 1). These two systems drop between 1/4th and 1/2th inch of liquid on the I-25 corridor (Figure 3). The GFS gives us a total, for the two systems, of 1-3 inches (Figure 4) while the GFS hints at for 3-5 inches (Figure 5). These systems are still quite a ways out. I'll keep you updated here!
By end of the week we are dry again with Spring temperatures returning.
