Good Saturday, folks. If you’re a fan of winter weather leading up to Christmas, you have to love the pattern taking shape across the country. It’s one loaded with very cold blast, and the potential for several snow systems to threaten out region.
Let’s start with the weekend weather and roll forward.
Clouds are doing the rolling out there today, ahead of a storm system arriving late tonight and Sunday. This system will bring a chilly rain in here, with the potential for some snowflakes mixing in early on Sunday. Overall, Sunday looks like a dreary day.
The follow up system to this one will be much bigger and bring heavy rain back to the bluegrass state. This arrives late Monday and lasts into Tuesday…
That can bring another 1″+ rainfall to parts of the state. Winds will also be gusty as that low works across the area.
Once this storm goes through, here comes the arctic front! This looks to arrive later Wednesday or early Thursday with high winds, a band of snow and a MAJOR temperature crash…
We are still going to have to see if an arctic wave develops along that boundary. If it does, it would certainly enhance the chances for accumulating snows. The European Model continues to be more robust with that scenario…
With such cold air and a strong northwesterly flow, you’ve got to like the chances for snow showers and flurries all the way through Friday night.
Highs for Thursday and Friday should be in the low and mid 20s with gusty winds making it feel much colder. The new European Model suggests some areas have a hard time getting out of the upper teens on Friday…
Low temps will drop into the 10-15 degree range with single digit wind chills very possible. Ouch!
The GFS has had some amazing looking runs over the past few days. The overnight run shows the waves of very cold, arctic air diving into the region over the next few weeks. Check this out…
Each cold shot as a potential winter weather maker with it. Here’s the first one showing up next weekend. The European is impressed with this…
The GFS is also seeing it…
You can see the next one already coming into California. That rolls eastward a few days later…
And this run of the GFS shows a carbon copy of a system a few days after that…
Now, that’s just one run of the GFS over the next few weeks. You know how this works, it’s fun to look at, but don’t get married to any kind of specifics. It just illustrates the potential of a pretty good winter pattern setting up across the country.
The individual GFS Ensembles members also have a healthy winter look…
I will update things later today. Make it a good one and take care.
Finally some sort of snow talk. Even if it doesn’t come thru I love the excitement.
Let’s get this PARTY started.
For selfish reasons I like diagram 9 and18.
Thanks Chris. Think we need to rewrite the song ‘It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas’ to include the phrase ‘It’s beginning to FEEL a lot like Christmas!’ Oh well, bring it! Looks like winter is here. Have a great Saturday everyone and GO CATS!!
That run of GFS ensembles looks great. Off to do more leaf work before the ballgame.
Go Big Blue!
Those are some impressive cold and SNOW maps for our part of the world! Material Christmas “gifts” don’t mean much to Rodger anymore – he buys what he wants if he wants it. Some snow on snow leading up to Christmas would be at the top of his list, however! Rodger in Dodger
Alright alright alright….hope to get to use Big Bertha, the snow blower…sooon☃️☃️