Good evening, folks. We have a lot of active weather rolling toward the bluegrass state, and this will bring more rain to us in the next 3 days than what we’ve had the past 2 months or so… Combined! This happens as we see the models start flexing some winter muscle into December.
The first round of rain arrives in the west later tonight and rolls east from there through Monday. The heaviest totals with this round will be across the central and western parts of the state..
Winds will also be VERY gusty late Monday afternoon into Monday night. Gusts of 40mph will be possible in a few spots.
The next system develops and moves across the region Tuesday night into Wednesday. This time, the heaviest corridor of rain will be across the eastern half of the state…
Now, all those lines aren’t totally set in stone as the actual weather doesn’t follow borders. This is a general 1″-3″ rainfall coming to the entire region from Monday through Wednesday. Locally higher amounts are very possible.
Seasonally cold air filters in behind this second system as we roll into the first few days of December. Some low clouds can spit out some rain or snow showers if we can get a true northwesterly flow for a time by the end of the week.
The next system cutting off across Texas and the four corners is truly an enigma for the models. With a developing -EPO, systems like that usually get kicked east and that’s exactly the trend of the day. The European Model brings a ton of rain in here next weekend, with a wet snow threat on the backside of the system…
If that system works out like the Euro shows, high water issues would be possible. Taken verbatim, the European Model shows some 5″+ amounts over the next week.
The GFS is a littler slower and weaker with that system, but also kicks it out…
The repercussions of that system kicking east, instead of hanging in the west, is for the much colder look to take over behind it. Watch the systems diving in on the GFS…
The past few runs of the GFS are now locking into what the ensembles have been showing… Arctic air getting into the country…
Of course, we take time and numbers with a grain of salt from a week or two out. But, the arctic air getting into the country fits the pattern and fits my winter forecast. December 1983 and December 1962 show up as some of the main analogs on the GFS. Both of those featured temps going well below zero during the month and led us into harsh winters. The winter of 1983/84 was my personal top analog for the winter forecast.
For even more eye candy (and nothing more than that), I present to you the 18z GFS two weeks from now…
I’ll see you guys back here for the late night update. Enjoy your evening and take care.
Great to see all the comments on the last post. Thanks for the evening update, Chris. I’m thinking this rain and wind will bring down a bunch of the stubborn leaves that just keep hanging on. I’m a liking that eye candy.
This is when the fun begins! Man that 18Z GFS. Lord Have Mercy!
That would be a blizzard of epic proportions!
Did you all hear that. CB said it was going to snow in two weeks. LOL.
I do like the looks of that eye candy.
Taking the 540 all the way into north Florida and showing that kind of precipitation would suggest a December “Superstorm.” Although the chances are near 0 that a storm like that will happen, the models are showing one heck of an active pattern for December.
Is anyone thinking a possible double digit monthly precipitation total for December?!?
Ha! Mr Bailey just couldn’t help himself showing that 2-week out GFS! It’ll be gone off the models tomorrow but hopefully the die is cast for a snowy December! Rodger in Dodger
Interesting days ahead.
From an 11 year olds perspective, my memories of the Winter of 1962 consist of an epic series of Snow Days!! It was my first thought when CB first put forth 1962 as an analog!