Good Saturday evening everyone. I promised to drop by for an update and I’m a weatherdude of my word. 
The weather through the middle of the week looks to play out according to plan, so there is no reason to get into all that.
You guys want to know about Christmas weekend and my thoughts have not changed. We are likely to have two systems impacting our region. The first comes on Friday as a cold front works in from the northwest and tries to crank up low pressure to our east. The operational models are doing their usual flip and flop routine and that’s why I’m riding the GFS Ensembles…
The second system to watch may drop in on Christmas Day into the next day…
Those are two systems for us to track as we head into the big week ahead and that’s exactly what we will do here on the blog. Again… I am not saying you are getting snow for Christmas. Just pointing out the pattern may give you a couple of chances over the holiday weekend.
A full update comes your way later tonight. I also want to say something people just don’t say enough of anymore… Merry Christmas!
Take care.
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Thanks Chris! I’m looking forward to hearing more as always. We’ll get our snow, if not this time, another!!
Ever other Weatherman said no snow.
GFS=Goebbels Forecast Service(“If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.”)
GFS=Goebbels Forecast Service(“If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.”)
GFS=Goebbels Forecast Service(“If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.”)
GFS=Goebbels Forecast Service(“If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.”)
Thank for the great information Chris!
Sorry but I am new to this. Can someone explain what does the dark green and light green mean? and what is the dark blue and light blue line?
If it is dark blue and the precipitation is snow, you better button down the hatches for the long haul. We will dig you out sometime in the spring.
If it is dark blue and the precipitation is snow, you better button down the hatches for the long haul. We will dig you out sometime in the spring.
If it is dark blue and the precipitation is snow, you better button down the hatches for the long haul. We will dig you out sometime in the spring.
If it is dark blue and the precipitation is snow, you better button down the hatches for the long haul. We will dig you out sometime in the spring.
But not an ankle biter. I want to see Versailles 10 inches at least after I make my kroger run.
Yeah! In fact, let’s make it another 1998 all over again…something to get Channel 18’s “carnage you can count on” trucks out and broadcasting LIVE from the Kroger parking lot as the snow comes down in white sheets.
whether or not it is summer or winter, the darker the green the heavier the precip type and if it is heavy enough the models will show blue, red, yellow, etc. you get the drift. the blue lines usually represent the freezing line at the surface. the darkest blue is the actual 32 degree line and the other smaller blu lines represents another step down to even more colder air. for example, the dark blue is 32 degrees, the next smaller line thet is blue may represent temps 10 degrees colder and the next may mean it is 10 degrees colder and so on. the further north and west you get the colder the air mass.
any of u more experienced mets out there please elaborate further if i have not explained this to him correctly. i am only wannabe met. so i may be wrong. hope this helps out some, nate. oh, by the way, i agree with chris, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!
Oh c’mon man. Just say its going to be too warm for snow! We all know it.
AMEN! On the snow chances!! :). And DOUBLE AMEN on the MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!! :):)
Well, I’m not givin’ up yet! 🙂
Most of the regulars know what to derive from Chris’s message….turn the lights out folks, the show’s over…hoping for at least a little snow this winter 🙁
You basically got it, except most of the time Chris uses the 850mb charts, which is approx. 5,000 ft. above the surface. So, the freezing line on those maps is NOT the freezing line as the surface unless it specifially says 2M temps. on the chart. When looking at those 850mb charts, I really like to see the -10 line over or south of Kentucky before I start thinking “snow on the ground”.
that is a point well taken, my friend. i have often wondered why chris would show those maps for a certain day but at the same time the temp would still be above freezing in many places. thanks for the lesson in the weather dept. i guess that is why i had better keep my day time job, eah!!! lol!!!! thanks and god bless and good night y’all…..oh by the way, i just peaked at the 00z gfs for next friday and it is 1 more time trying to sneak moisture northward again as far as ohio. a couple of days ago it was showing a storm cutting up over huntington, wva and another forming off the virginia capes then today it totally lost the storm or pushed it off the se coast, now it is starting to try and pull it north again so as usual here we go again. we will wait to get chris thoughts on this later tonight or early sunday…..good night and i mean it this time….lol!!!
Why dont all of us that seem to have a negative bent, which includes most everyone that has replied as of this post, try posting in a sandwhich format. That is, if you feel that you are going negative, start out by stating a positive, like, “thanks Chris for giving us your thoughts,” followed by something like, “I dont think that it will snow on Christmas,” followed by, “thanks Chris for all the updates.” Just food for thought
Merry Christmas!!
Me too!! I just want my brother home from the hospital before that 20″ snow comes! LOL!
Merry Christmas! and hopefully Merry White Christmas!