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The Front Range Forecast: Mostly quiet and warm

In Brief:

Late Spring weather settles in with only a weak cold front cooling and bring moisture Monday.

Forecast Discussion:

Things are quite warm and quiet as we sail through the weekend (Figure 1). There will be a return of wandering afternoon thunderstorms for the weekend.

 

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Figure 1: the 10 day graphical forecast for Longmont from weatherunderground.com

The Longer Range Forecast:

The next 'system' is weak cold front pushed by the trough approaching from the west in Figure 2. Temperatures do drop below normal, but don't even approach freezing (Figure 1).  At this time, the weatherunderground model has about 1/3rd of an inch of liquid falling. The GFS gives us 1/10th to 1/4th of an inch.  Thunderstorms may drop locally heavier totals.

For fun, I included the snowfall forecast.  It is only the highest elevations that will see falling flakes.

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Figure 2: the 500mb upper air forecast model for Monday night from the GFS and tropicaltidbits.com

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Figure 3: the 5 day precipitation forecast from the GFS and weather5280.com
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Figure 4: the 5 day 10:1 snowfall forecast from the GFS and weather5280.com

 


About the Author: John Ensworth

John Ensworth used to work from Longmont as the PI for the NASA through the IGES (The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies). He now teaches technology, algebra, astronomy, meteorology, film school, and Lego robotics to middle/high school.
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