Good afternoon, everyone. The sun is slowly showing up this afternoon as clouds begin to scour out. The mix of sun and clouds then hangs tough for a few days before we see Old Man Winter flex a little by Friday into the weekend. This is a setup likely to bring snow in here and kicks off an overall pattern very likely to turn even more toward winter in the coming weeks.
The cold front ahead sweeps in here quickly Thursday night and Friday morning. This has a touch of rain right along it and a band of light snow right behind it. Once it goes through, we get a windy break before snow wraps in by Friday evening. You can see this happening on the future radar from the NAM. This goes through 7pm Friday…
That band of snow then takes us through Saturday. Here’s the GFS…
Saturday looks like a snowy day and we will likely see some bands of heavier snow embedded within this overall band of light snow. A few inches can easily show up in this kind of setup.
The Canadian Model keeps the rounds of light snow through Monday…
The EURO is very similar…
The GFS Ensembles have a good snow signal through Monday…
The overall snow signal for the next two weeks continues to also be a strong one…
This is a very wintry pattern setting up for the rest of January and, likely, into early February.
I may throw you another update this evening, so check back. Have a good one and take care.
LOL, when my kids were younger, I wanted to be in the pink-purple-red area, no I prefer the blue 🙂
These Alberta Clippers never preform well in the way of significant Snow accumulation in my area of Kentucky.
However, in early January 1977 we had 4 inches of Snow in Evansville, Indiana from a Clipper that brought below zero temperatures behind it.
The deepest Snow I’ve seen from a single Clipper was in Terre Haute, Indiana just after Thanksgiving Day 1964 where 8 inches fell.
Well we are almost halfway through January without a flake of Snow since Christmas Day when we had 1.5 inches of Snow in my county of Taylor. I am not sure but I think we had more snow in November 2019 ?
The real deal Winter is in Russia and most of Europe. (Spain) very Heavy Snowfall for that part of the World. Very interesting with that stationary low pressure trough out of Siberia. Temperatures are -20’s to -60’s with widespread Snow cover.
In the Pacific Northwest the famous “Pineapple Express” is promising very heavy rains and Mountain Snows. So what else is new ?
I can’t remember too many clippers dropping more than 3″, but in January 2018 one did drop 4.5″ here near Bloomington, Indiana and I think some spots near me had over 5″.
Looks like nickels & dimes snowfalls.
I agree. Ankle biter snows . Jlust as soon not have hhwkn
Wow… 7 inches of snowfall predicted for the Chicago area the next two weeks. I’m a little skeptical though, I’ll believe it when I see it.