Good afternoon, folks. December is off and running on a cold note across our part of the world, but the focus of the forecast continues to be on another big wind maker this weekend.  We are still i a very busy pattern that will lead to active weather next week as a wintry pattern slowly takes shape.

Let’s begin with the Friday night and Saturday cold front. This drops in from the northwest with gusty showers working through the region…

That rain will end quickly from northwest to southeast on Saturday as colder air filters in, setting up a seasonable brand of cold.

The winds are the big player and could hit 40mph-50mph at times late Friday into Saturday morning. Check out some of the gusts showing up on the models…

Those Christmas decorations are getting a test this week, folks!

A weaker system moves through on Sunday and can bring a period of light rain and a touch of sleet across the west and south.

A much bigger system brings rounds of rain in here later Monday through Tuesday and part of Wednesday. The models do have some of the typical timing and spatial differneces…

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The system by the end of next week continues to have more of a winter look to it, but we are a long way off from the models figuring this one out…

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The pattern likely throws a better winter weather chance at us with the system that follows that up early the following week…

As always, we aren’t showing you model runs for specifics, folks. These are only to illustrate how the pattern is changing toward a winter one for the middle and end of December. Right on cue! 😉

I will have another update later today, so check back. Make it a good one and take care.