Good afternoon, everyone. Winds have hit 40mph at times today as we get a cold front to slowly drop in from the northwest. This will usher in a pretty sharp temp gradient for Wednesday and could bring some rain and snow to the north.

This front pretty much represents the theme of the winter with a constant battle going on. That battle may really ramp it up next week. I will show ya that in a bit.

I mentioned the rain and snow threat in the north tomorrow, and it’s fairly light. Here’s where the GFS thinks the winter weather may be…

GFS Snow 2

Temps in the south may push 60 degrees while that’s taking place.

Colder air pushes in for Thursday and Friday with a weakening band of snow moving our way. Can it hold together to produce some flakes? I think it can.

The Super Bowl weekend system continues to trend weaker on the models and that means it will have less cold air to work with. Still, it can produce a front end surge of wintry weather…

GFS Snow 3

In my last post, I mentioned how the pattern next week has the look of one that goes from 70 and strong thunderstorms, to snow and teens.

Well, here ya go…

GFS 2

GFS GIf

I know some of you think I have resigned from the snow lovers club. I still love my snow, but I’ve been in a spring mindset for a long time now. Unfortunately, mother nature doesn’t care about what my mind wants. 🙂

Here’s the winter deal. In order to get to real spring, we are going to have to endure a period of pretty good winter weather around here. This is not a pattern that just makes a harmless transition to true spring, and I’m hoping we can get it out of our system sooner rather than later.

The deeper it goes, the more it also ups the ante for our spring severe weather season. We’ve had some very quiet springs around here for the past several years. Pure percentages say it’s going to catch up to us.

I will try to update later this evening. Make it a good one and take care.