Good Friday evening, folks. Rain is working eastward across the state this evening and will carry us into early Saturday. Heavy rain will be likely and a rumble of thunder will be possible. This action gets out of town early Saturday and will leave us with some nice stuff to follow.

What you guys want to know about is the return of winter. That comes next week as several systems impact our weather each will bring a shot of colder air than the one before it.

The European Model continues to insist on a storm system blowing across our region Monday night into Tuesday…

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That would be a rain to snow situation before the precipitation pulls out of town during the afternoon and evening. Check out the shot of cold coming behind it…

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There could be another system diving in behind this one by Tuesday night into Wednesday. That one is trying to dig more with each model run.

Another system dives in by the end of the week and will bring another snow threat our way. The air behind this one is even colder…

Euro 3The pattern is in a reloading process and, yet, we are getting shots of cold and snow chances for next week. That speaks volumes about this winter in the United States.

What is this pattern evolving to? How about the threat of another harsh period of bitter cold later this month or into early February.

As I have said… we have lots of winter to go and the worst of the snow is still ahead of us.

Do you guys see how much I like you? My first day off work in forever and I am STILL here for ya. 🙂 I leave you with regional radar to track the rain into town…

Take care.