Good afternoon, everyone. It’s a cold and flakey day across the Commonwealth as an upper level system works overtop of us. This is keeping temps way down into the 30s for highs and bringing our pockets of light snow and flurries. The pattern does relax later this week, but we ramp it right back up by the weekend and early next week. This looks like a very active setup in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

The flakes out there today really aren’t anything other than festive. These will continue to show up in pockets, with the best chance in the central and east. Additional very light accumulations will still be possible in the southeast. Here’s some snowy shots from the high ground of Pike County…

Here are your radars for the rest of the day…

Temps do recover very quickly for the second half of the week and may shoot toward 60 by Friday as a southwest flow kicks in ahead of a weekend storm system. A cold front likely moves in on Saturday, bringing rain and wind with it. The look of the pattern suggests this front slows down and allows for another storm system to develop along it and move our way by Sunday and Monday. If that low does pop, then we could be in some snow business, depending on where the front stalls.

This scenario is showing up on the Canadian…

If the low isn’t real, then we get the front to blast through with cold air and light snow behind it. That’s what the GFS is showing…

Of course, the progressive bias of the GFS may be at work here, so it may be jumping too much on the initial low.

Another winter looking system quickly follows that up by the middle of next week. Here’s the Canadian…

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I will go more in depth of this later tonight. Have a good one and take care.