Good afternoon, gang. My time is short, so this will have to be a very quick update to hit the potential high points or the pattern over the next few weeks.

Our late weekend system continues to be a west-east mover that can have a winter weather impact to the northern half of the state. One weak system shears through on Sunday with a little bigger system Sunday night into Monday.

The NAM only goes out through early Sunday evening, but it has some frozen precipitation showing up across the northern half of the state…

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If we expand that out through Monday night on the Canadian model, you can see how some BIG snows should be just to our north…

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The GFS is similar with the whole thought process…

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Following that system up will be an arctic front arriving late Tuesday or Wednesday. The GFS is picking up on snow with that system. You can see that added to the above totals as we expand the time period…

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The GFS continues to forecast single digits behind that arctic surge for the middle of next week.

With additional surges of arctic air moving into the country over the next 2 weeks, the GFS keeps developing systems along the leading edge of these.

For fun, let’s look at the GFS snow map for every flake that falls through the next 16 days…

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We obviously take any snowfall map with a truckload of salt, but one can see where the models think will have the best chance of seeing accumulating snows in the coming weeks. If you’re trying to get more specific than that, don’t blame me. 😉

I will give you another update this evening. Take care.