Good Thursday, folks. We are tracking a cold front across the region today, but this isn’t the system everyone is interested in. It’s the one blowing into town for the Christmas weekend. This will bring a surge of rain and milder air before winter battles back for the final week of the year.
Today’s front can spawn a snow flurry or two this afternoon and evening. Highs will be a little cooler with upper 30s to low 40s.
Rain arrives at the start of the big Christmas weekend. This means some nasty travel conditions from late Friday into Christmas Eve. Locally heavy downpours are possible during this time and the models are spitting out some decent totals.
The new 3km NAM goes through Saturday morning…
Here’s the GFS rainfall forecast through Christmas Eve…
Christmas Day will see a few showers around, but it’s not going to rain all day. Temps will rise through the 50s and could hit 60. Those temps will continue into Monday as a cold front swings in here. That should have a band of gusty rains along and ahead of it…
Temps return to near normal behind that front, but another system makes a run at us a few days later. That unleashes colder air to as we round out the final days of the year…
That may be able to deliver some flurries and snow showers, too.
The European Model continues to trend much, much colder in the final days of the year. Check out this arctic blast diving into the country…
That happens in response to this monster ridge developing off the west coast of Canada and into Alaska…
Again, something similar led to our harsh winter periods of the past 3 years. If that block is real, then the ensuing pattern is likely to be an attention getter.
I will update things later today. Enjoy your Thursday and take care.
A brutal pattern with nothing to show for it.
Will we ever get snow this winter?
Thanks Chris! We’ve got something to look forward to.
One of these days were gonna get more than what we ask for. With January coming up our chances of getting snow is better, got to have faith.
Just wrote a 2 paragraph comment, submitted and the filter caught it – although I have no clue what word/s I typed to cause it. So annoying.
I always copy what I’ve typed out in case it doesn’t submit properly. Then I can just paste and try again.
I really hope the pattern changes back to the one we were in before 2012 or something similar… I really don’t think I have it in me to go through another Winter with Feet of snow dropping at a time and sub zero temperatures. This is Kentucky, not Alaska.
You are definitely in the minority here.
Rodger’s exact thoughts lol. I’d say 75% of the regulars here root for snow and more snow! Rodger in Dodger.
Has it really been that bad??? Even 2014-15 winter was only bad the last week of January through first week of March…pretty much nothing before that 6 week period. Plus, we only had a bad February last year.
Thoughts…
I a man ready for a 1976-77 77-78 and 78-79. Feet of snow sustained cold and the Ohio river froze over. If it’s going to be cold, let it snow,
I am*
A white new years would be a nice 2nd place prize đ