UPPER-LEVEL PATTERN
Sometimes potential just isn’t realized – it’s sorta like my college baseball career. In my case, it was too much beer, but for a storm eyeing toward Colorado later this week, it’s because it gets ripped apart. Check out the series of images below. Use the arrows to move through the slideshow. Thursday afternoon it looks GREAT! If we could take that and dive it straight southeast across northern New Mexico into the Texas panhandle from Friday into early Saturday we would be in business. But that’s not what’s going to happen.
Expect the storm to be split in two. We will get some energy to move overhead on Friday, but the bulk of it ends up over the southwestern U.S., or maybe even of the coast off Baja, Mexico! History shows that splitting storms just don’t do too much as they move through.
SKYCAST
Now, there is still a shot at some moisture with that first wave, particularly Friday afternoon and evening north of highway 50 and the snow level behind a cold front, and because the upper-level system is colder than the first system of the week that moves through on Tuesday, the snow level probably ends up a little lower. I’ll keep an eye on that!
