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By Joel Gratz, Founding Meteorologist Posted 9 years ago October 15, 2014

Dry and warm, some precip next week

Summary:

Keep the sunscreen handy because it'll be sunny and generally dry for about the next 7 days. We could see some rain/snow next Wednesday or Thursday, though that looks like a transient storm versus a significant pattern change.

Details:

Yesterday was a perfect day with not a cloud in the sky. On the visible satellite image below, the white color that you see is snow on the mountains.

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Source: Weathertap.com

Wednesday, today, through early next week won't be cloudless as we will see times of high and mid-level clouds, but most of the state will be dry for the next week. The southern mountains (San Juans and Sangre de Cristos) may see scattered showers Saturday and Sunday, but the precipitation will be hit and miss.

A small piece of the storminess over the Pacific Ocean will move inland during the middle of next week and we'll have a higher chance for showers (rain & snow) next Wednesday or Thursday. After that, many models return us to drier weather for a few days before a possible change to a more active pattern late in the month. At that range, 15 days, there's virtually no skill in the details of the model projections, so I'm looking at trends and like to share what I'm seeing, but take it as a very low-skill forecast.

In terms of snowmaking, Loveland, Abasin, and Copper had two productive nights Sunday and Monday night, but temperatures failed to drop to freezing on Tuesday night and it'll be borderline for the next week or so. I'm not a snowmaking expert, but I wouldn't expect much progress on that front for at least a week.

Patience, I suppose. It's great biking weather!

JOEL GRATZ

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Joel Gratz

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Joel Gratz is the Founding Meteorologist of OpenSnow and has lived in Boulder, Colorado since 2003. Before moving to Colorado, he spent his childhood as a (not very fast) ski racer in eastern Pennsylvania.

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