Good afternoon, everybody. Winds are cranking out there today, ahead of a major pattern change rolling into town tonight. This change means winter weather is coming back, complete with cold temps and snow chances.

I don’t have much to add to the snow shower and snow squalls developing tonight and lasting through Thursday. Local, light accumulations will be possible, especially across the mountains in the east and southeast. Snow showers and squalls are “streaky” by nature, missing some, while hitting others pretty hard. You can really see that on the Hi Res NAM snowfall map…

Now, the model isn’t going to nail the exact track of the snow showers, but you get the idea. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a delay or cancellation showing up.

Wind chills will hit the teens at times through Friday morning. Highs will generally run in the 30s.

The weekend setup continues to be interesting, with two systems possibly impacting our weather. With so much on the table, the models are struggling on which system to key on, and where to put them.

The GFS is wimpy with the Friday system (which I don’t agree with), but is stronger, albeit out of synch, with the late weekend system…

The Canadian Model is much stronger with the Friday system and tries to make it the main focus of the weekend…

I think the truth lies in between those two. The Friday system can put down a swath of accumulating snows in our region, with the Sunday storm walking a fine line in terms of how much phasing we can get.

Regardless, we have several winter weather threats to track over the next week.

I will have the latest on WKYT-TV starting at 4pm, with another blog update this evening. Have a good one and take care.