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The Good News, The Bad News
Jan 12, 2012; 2:14 PM ET
I hate to beat a dead horse, so to speak, but the snowless, rainless weather pattern looks like it continues into much of next week for the Southwest.
First, really the only chance for ANY precipitation in California and Arizona over the next week comes from an upper-level low around 30N and 131W.

This low is not likely to move much at all over the next 36 hours then gets pushed east across southern California and Arizona Sunday and Sunday night. Sounds like it could be promising huh? Well, unfortunately, precipitation with this low is going to be spotty and light. It is not likely to put even the smallest of dents into the precipitation deficits.
After that low exits, the pattern looks dry for much of next workweek for a large percentage of California, Nevada and Arizona. It will be cooler than it's been but still dry. However, a stormier track does open up in the Northwest with moderate to even some heavy precipitation possible in the middle to later parts of next week. The southern end of these storms will graze northern California, Nevada and Utah, more so on the European than the GFS. The GFS in general has the storm track farther north than the European. However, neither model brings rain down as far south as the central and southern portions of California on east.
Here is what the GFS has for total precipitation from this morning through next Friday morning Jan. 20.

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