Good evening, gang. As we wrap up another dreary day in the bluegrass state, the countdown is on to Christmas! The possibility of a a huge storm system to develop for Christmas Eve and Day continues to be the focus of forecasts all across the eastern half of the country.

The idea of a deepening storm from the Ohio Valley into the Great Lakes still shows up on several of the models. The new version of the GFS shows a wicked, wicked storm for millions of Americans…

GFS 3

 

That drops the barometric pressure with that storm to 965mb by Christmas morning. WOW! Talk about a HUGE wind maker!

That’s a scenario that would put snow on the ground around and cause blowing snow with winds greater than 40mph. Of course… that is IF that model were to verify.

The UKMET goes out to Christmas Eve morning and appears to be going in a similar direction with a storm lifting northward across the Ohio Valley…

 

 

UKMETThe GFS Ensembles show a huge storm developing a just to our northeast…

GFS 2  The regular run of the soon to be defunct GFS is even trying to go toward the deeper solution…

GFS

It is still likely too progressive with things, but even that run would give us very windy weather with rain to snow and snow showers and squalls through Christmas morning.

Confidence in, at least, some snow is rising.

I will update things this evening. Take caer.