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Forecast Discussion:
Being on vacation this week, I'm going to keep these just a bit briefer than normal... Figure 1 shows the trough pulling up into the ridge, That ridge has already slided east of the state in this progressive pattern. This will kick off a chance of rain and higher mountain snows Saturday and Saturday PM. The big picture is that the jet stream is going to park in the vicinity of our state for many days now. Every ripple that travels downstream can kick off another round of showers across the state.
In the longer range:
Figure 2, for example, shows another trough moving in on Monday morning, digging cooler air and lift pretty far south. Figure 3 is the 10 day -at a glance- with the greater chance of significant rain for Monday in Longmont. Achance of daily showers - and cool temperatures - is the story for days to come. Now I'm off to an out-of-state family wedding!
