Good Thursday to one and all. Much colder air has worked into the state and it has the chance to bring a few flakes to some areas later this evening. Nothing like a little talk of flakes to get the winter juices flowing. Those juices may get a workout later in the month into December.

In the short term, it’s all about the shot of cold for the next few days. Temps today will stay in the 40s for highs for most of the state. Winds will gust up and this adds an extra bite to the chilly temps. Our day starts with some sun and ends with thickening clouds.

We continue to watch a disturbance diving our way later today into tonight. It is rather photogenic and shows up well on the GFS:



This doesn’t have a ton of juice with it, but may have just enough to produce a rain or snow shower late this afternoon into tonight. The best chance of this will be in the north and east.

Follow all of today’s action:



Current Temps



Friday will see our skies clearing out with more in the way of chilly temps. Highs will range from the mid 40s east to mid 50s in the far west.

The weekend weather looks to be half and half right now. Saturday looks good with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s with a few clouds. Those clouds will increase into Sunday with some showers developing for many areas.

Those showers are ahead of a system that rolls in for Monday and that should be the first of two to impact the region early next week. It looks rather active next week as we increase the temperature gradient across the country. The GFS is awfully wet through Wednesday…



Much colder air is likely to work in for the middle and end of next week as we continue to see our temps bouncing back and forth. This is happening as the overall pattern across the country heads into an early start to winter. I am seeing increasing signs of something big trying to happen toward the end of the month or early December. When, where and what that is remains to be seen.

This is a supercharged pattern!

One of the things I like to look at in talking about the winter ahead is fall snow cover across the northern hemisphere. Snow and cold lovers should like the look of this:



Snow cover is much above normal and those numbers should expand over the next few weeks as Canada fills in.

I will have another update later today, so check back. Have a great Thursday and take care.