Good Friday to one and all. We’ve made it to the end of the week and temps are slowly turning milder. The milder air is ahead of another very active setup that will take us right back into a wintry pattern late next week into Christmas week.

Temps today spike into the 40s with a 50 or so in the west. Clouds will be pretty thick as we get ready for the first of back to back rainmakers to arrive over the weekend. This brings rain in from west to east late Saturday into Sunday. The next rain system then moves through Monday and Tuesday…

This is likely a 1″-2″ rainfall for much of the region through Tuesday.

The setup behind this turns very cold from late next week into Christmas week. I said to expect some wild swings on the models with how they handle individual storm systems and that’s exactly what we’re seeing. I suspect this continues for a few more days before we get some common ground to show up.

All the models are giving us a different solution from one run to the next so you can’t really get too excited over any one run just yet. The GFS is back to being too progressive with the Wednesday through Friday system or systems…

The EURO is trending toward a much stronger storm system and is very close to a big-time phased storm…

For the first time in a long time, I have to call out the Canadian as it has lost the setup…

It was due for some bad runs, especially since I’ve been talking it up so much! ha

Regardless of which run we look at, temps are frigid in this pattern and all the models continue to forecast well below normal temperatures…

EURO

GFS

CANADIAN

The EURO Weeklies continue to advertise a healthy winter look from late December into much of January. You can see the ridging along the west coast into Alaska with a trough across much of the central and eastern parts of the United States…

The Control Run of the EURO Weeklies is even more emphatic…

For fun, here are the snowfall maps through the same time…

I’ll have updates later today so check back. Make it a fantastic Friday and take care.