White Christmas Thoughts

Hello and good Tuesday to everyone out there! We had that potent cold front move through yesterday and now today we're seeing temperatures struggle to the upper 30s for highs! We'll struggle through the rest of the week as well as tomorrow high temperatures will hold in the upper 30s to low 40s. Thursday highs in the upper 40s and Friday highs in the low 50s in which all of those day will feature morning time lows in the 20s.

Enough with the next few days, I know as well as you do that the title of this post 'White Christmas Thoughts' is what pulled you into reading this ;). I updated my faebook status telling you that last week we had a 52% chance for a White Christmas and today I'm here to say we've now got a 61% chance. Thats a big jump and if it wasn't for the strong readings the models are giving me it wouldn't be this high.

I'm seeing the possibility of a winter storm to creep through the Ohio Valley next week around mid week, and I'm saying this because it cannot go north due to the fact that we have that blocking high pressure in eastern Canada and in Greenland. If you need a refresher of what a blocking high pressure is refer back to the winter weather forecast posts.  That blocking acts like a shield. It doesn't let anything in and actually almost reflects things in a way. Anyways with it being in place that forces any system to stay south of the blocking high pressure allowing the cold air to also be in place therefore becoming a winter storm for our area.

The models also talk about a few systems moving in during and around Christmas week. If we can get lucky we may be able to see one of them move in here and maybe bring us that White Christmas that everyone wants.

On a different note the guys at liveweatherblogs.com have updated their winter weather outlook yesterday and take a look at what they're calling for around our area:

Yeah, you're reading that map right. That says 20-30% above average snowfall for this winter for our area. Hopefully that will keep the moral up of several people whom have complained of not seeing any snow so far this December. Again, chill out. It'll happen soon enough ;).

Have a great Tuesday everyone and take care! :)