UPDATE

I just had to wait for the European Model to come in before hitting the bed. This is another wicked run with a nasty mess Tuesday day with wind driven snow late Tuesday into early Wednesday. Here’s the snow map from the Euro…

Euro 2Ok… this time I mean it. I’m going to bed. See you later today.

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Good Sunday, my frozen friends. Talk about a taste of some wicked cold temps… we have it. The arctic front blew into town Saturday evening with lake effect snow showers and flurries and wind chills close to 10 degrees. Think about that sentence for a second and take a look at your calendar. Impressive!

The cold continues today with readings struggling to get to the freezing mark. Gusty winds will make it feel much colder and a few snow flurries may flutter by.

All eyes continue to focus on the developing winter storm in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. Today will be a very important day for this storm as I suspect we see the computer models converge on a solution at some point. The GFS is slowly going back to the way of the rest of the modeling world. Shocker!

Since I will be updating several times today… I won’t ramble on too much with this post. Well… no more than usual. 🙂

The Canadian continues to be steady as a rock with how it handles this storm…

Canadian

That particular run is even stronger with the storm and would produce a ton of wind around here as another round of arctic cold dives in behind it on Wednesday. It actually shows snow showers and squalls into Thanksgiving morning.

The Canadian snowfall map through Wednesday…

Canadian 2The guys and gals from the Weather Prediction Center (think of the Storm Prediction Center for severe weather) have our region in a slight risk for 4″+ snows on Tuesday…

HPC

I think we need to keep a close eye on the potential for a wintry mix at the start of this system on Tuesday… especially in the southeast. There is some indication that freezing rain could be an issue for a while.

Exactly how much of an impact this storm has on where you live is still uncertain, but it is likely to have some kind of impact. Will it be minimal or something more? That’s the question I will tackle with updates later today.

Have a good one and take care.