Good Evening, gang. We have one more night in the tank and then our thermometers start to moderate. This mild up will be ugly with several systems throwing rain our way into the weekend and early next week. Let’s keep an eye on the back edge of these things as they roll through. A touch of winter is possible after they pass.
One of my rules of thumb in the winter… any warm up that starts with rain is likely not to last very long. The models are certainly suggesting that’s what happens.
The European has a nice trough digging in by the middle of next week…
The same run of the model shows a deeper trough developing by the end of next week…
Enjoy the winter break in the coming days. 😉
Take care.
So basically, whenever we do go back to school, it won’t last for long. Enjoy the weekend everyone, rain and all.
As we head into mid-January we have still not seen a Winter Storm Warning from our favorite meteorologist Mr. Bailey. The Winter Storm Threat last week was never upgraded. With the models showing rain for the coming week and the sun rising higher in the sky each day, I can’t help but realize winter’s days are numbered.
Hope we get something more notable than bitter cold air this winter – and preferably not an ice storm. lol
It’s only January 7. the days of winter are not numbered.
We have reached our coldest average high temperate. The average high will begin to rise within a couple of weeks. Fingers crossed we get a good snow very soon!
Several years that have had one intrusion of the polar vortex have had two. If we can put some snow on the ground ahead of another one, we could be looking at a top-10 cold weather event. Also, the location of the strongest high pressure matters. In 1994 it was right over us, this time it was over Arkansas.
1917-1918:
The winter of 1917-1918 was the worst winter on record. It all began with a ferocious blizzard that struck on December 9, 1917 that reportedly dropped sixteen inches of snow at Louisville in under fifteen hours. The wind was blowing at forty miles per hour, causing the snow to drift as high as six feet in Richmond. The temperature was freezing. For the three-month period of December through February, the temperature averaged around 28.6°F. In January, the snow count was at three feet, the highest recorded for the month in the state. With the amount of snow and the freezing temperatures, the Ohio River froze over its entire length until January 30, 1918. When the ice broke, there was $1 million in damages to steamboats and small vessels
Another thing that made this winter worse was a flu pandemic. Many people died. My grandfather (1912-1994) was one of 14 children. Seven were born before 1917. Four of them died in the winter of 1917-1918 due to the flu and cold.
I wonder what has to happen in the atmosphere to make a winter than long and extreme, knowing what we know about weather now?
Just wait 10 days from now.
Canada can you spare a clipper?
We are in a great depression down here.
…. I was going to post another drive-by rant, but you guys got me depressed enough. I am going to now snuggle my cat and dogs and think of a happy place. 🙁
The song The End from the Doors and the theme music from Platoon are playing at the same time in my head now…. The horror…..
Bubba, your Platoon music reference: Samuel Barbef composed. Look it up and download the whole piece ; worth every penny. Good taste sir!
Barber. Sorry.
It’s January 7th, and some on here are acting as if Winter were over.
lol just got through watching the forecast from chris. looks like winter is going to be taking a small break. Winter is not over yet just getting started. The funny thing is they showed a commercial of chris hyping the arctic outbreak before it got here while lex was forecasting temps way different. The wkyt commercial even blows up the 8 day forecast for both stations comparing temps lex failed badly lol.
Some friends told me of that commercial, but I haven’t seen it. Is there a link anywhere?
Thanks Chris for the update. I check your blog many times a day. It is both informative and entertaining.