DayWeather Podcast 3-2-2026

0:00Welcome to Monday and welcome to March, Monday, March 2, 2026, after a catastrophic truck crash. Trust grant loss and of the law firm for truck safety, board certified, nationally recognized with millions recovered, and relentless advocacy for your justice. Visit truckaccidents.com today. Well, two storm systems will traverse the Western United States this week. We're going to see both of these systems. If you put them together, going to bring beneficial moisture for some. Is this going to end up being a real big blockbuster storm this week? No, but you put the two together. There'll be some areas that will do quite well, especially portions of Wyoming, northern Utah, eastern Idaho, and far northern Colorado. It's kind of a small area. We'd like to see it bigger, but it's better than nothing.

1:00So hopefully this start of March is a signal of more to come. We're going to see a mix of rain, snow, and, yes, thunder. This time of year, you do start to throw thunderstorms into the mix a little bit more, as at least with this first system. And to some extent, the second system. There's not much cold air available with these systems that come in, but cold air is looking more and more likely next week, especially around Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday next week could be much colder. We'll show you that here in a minute. Lots of great shots of the moon, as you saw there on the opening slide, across the region with that bright moon coming on out, pushing in high-series stratus clouds ahead of that Pacific moisture, making it really quite nice and easy for moon bows to form. So some beautiful shots across the region from the Great Basin to down into Arizona and into a scene that doesn't look like a early March at Tung River Reservoir Wyoming,

2:04but look at those calm waters. No ripple on the water. Where's the wind? Nobody missing it this weekend, that's for sure. There's a nice shot of some lenticular clouds from the big horns to South Eastern Wyoming and all across the region as upper level winds are loft beginning to increase and moisture increasing across the region. We should be able to see some of the mountains of the region picking up some good snow this week. Good moisture content. The snow depths may not be really impressive, but the water content will be. Those beautiful blue skies that you get this time of years at Sun Angle Climb's higher, making for some really pretty scenes across the area. It looks like some mayors tail with those serious clouds there in Spears Fish, South Dakota over the weekend. Here's system number one. The upper level low is right here. There is a lot of good moisture coming out ahead of it, producing some showers overnight across portions of the Intermountain West. Here's storm number two, quickly on its heels, and that's what's going to come in here

3:09with storm number two later in the week. So we've got this low. This was the low that got parked out here last week and just sat there, gathered some moisture and is coming in. As you can see, on a geographic scale, it's not a really large system, but it's moist. It's got some things going for it. So as it slides eastward today, tomorrow and into Wednesday. By Wednesday morning, it'll weaken somewhat as it moves across northeast Colorado and Nebraska with the kicker low coming in behind it. Now notice there's more color here with this low. There's more in the way of colder air coming in with it and a bit more energy and a bit of a larger system. And then it gets a little bit convoluted as this low will drop into the great basin later on this week. So we're going to break this up like we do a lot of times. We've got two rounds of precipitation and weather. So number one, we'll bring precipitation between today and especially for a lot of you

4:12tomorrow into early tomorrow evening before it clears out by Wednesday morning. So you can see along the path of the low, northern Utah, southwestern Wyoming, Southeast Idaho, then the I-80 corridor, the central and southern counties of Wyoming, far northwest Colorado with some showers into the panhandle of Nebraska will develop. We're also going to have some showers and thunderstorms breaking out here across the southern plains. So this is system number one. Yes, the green shading means thunderstorms are going to be a possibility in those green shaded areas. Nothing severe, but that's something that especially next week. And with this second storm, this part of the U.S. will start to see their first salvos of severe weather for the season. So good water content for the higher elevations, but the snow levels are going to be really high. A lot of you will see rain first turning over to a little bit of wet snow, but snow levels are likely going to be 6,000 feet and higher. Nonetheless, if traveling, the I-80 corridor, especially watch out for that.

5:17System number two, it comes in behind and comes into the great base and it gets near the four corners where we love to see those lows because that helps with up slow. Unfortunately, though, as you'll see here on the next slide, instead of it becoming a four corners low that jumps the divide and reforms and brings prolonged upslope to the eastern areas of the I-25 corridor, while this is going to bring another impressive salvo of moisture into the region, it's not going to end up being that big, marked storm. At least not this one because it gets sheared. See how the system shears apart with one low going north and the other low backtracking all the way into southern California. We would like to see this system cut off and go more out into the plains. Now, I will say this, this model solution may be a little bit too extreme on the split, so there may be more energy holding together into northeastern and eastern Colorado, late

6:20Friday into Friday night. So that's still going to be a possibility. That being said, even with the shearing of the low, it's going to bring another round of good moisture. Looks like another good, you can see that these areas here get hit twice. So you put the two together and that's going to be very good for a lot of Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho. Also, could see some nice precipitation come out here in the Dakotas into Nebraska than the southern plains with showers and thunderstorms. Unfortunately, since the system is shearing, the precipitation chances aren't as good in eastern Colorado and western Kansas, although there may be more here with the second system than what the models are showing. So not the perfect storm, not the big blockbuster early marked storms that we sometimes get, but it's better than where we've been. So we'll be grateful that we have these two systems coming in. As you can see, the good part of central southwestern Wyoming, the small area that's really,

7:24really dry, some of you are going to benefit quite well from this system, both systems when you put them together. So when these systems are put together, you're going to see precipitation like this with wave number two, mainly coming Thursday into Thursday night and early Friday. This is the snowfall with the second system coming through. And as we get into early next week, that upper level, though, that gets stuck in the southwestern United States gets reattached to the main jet stream flow. Colder winds aloft come in. We still have the high here in the eastern Pacific. So that's going to keep systems wanting to come through the western United States. The key is how cold and how moist are they going to be? And can we get one of these to slow down? Not shear apart and bring up slope winds into areas that would really feed the deeper moisture that you need with these early spring storm systems. There will be a good slug of moisture coming in with this and a good slug of cold.

8:29This is completely reasonable. I don't think this is something that is unreasonable in terms of the way the weather pattern is. So by Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next week, we could see a pretty good shot of much colder air come into the west pulling up that warm air and that's why we're talking severe weather season gets started in this part of the country here. So it's March. Things should get more busy and they certainly are. Don't forget our regional travel forecast. We will have travel concerns this week. Have yourself a good Monday. We'll see you tomorrow.