Cold's A Comin'

Add another log to the fire...stoke the coals...fire the furnace before Thanksgiving...any and all of these will be heard throughout PA as a bona fide Arctic outbreak will be occurring over the next 2 weeks across most of the eastern 2/3 of the lower 48.  In addition, some serious snow pack will begin to be placed across most of O Canada and the northern tier of the US as a somewhat vigorous sub-tropical ridge tries to hold sway across the western Atlantic and create a storm track that will undecidedly have many places with a substantial snow pack prior to Thanksgiving Day!  This is all in the name of ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING!

To the maps...1st the next 10 days for temps as per the Euro for KCXY (CapCity Airport since I'm a West Shore kinda guy!)...looks mid-winterish to me!  The horizontal red line is freezing.

And now, lets look at 5 day increments of temp...1st for the period ending this Friday evening...and this includes the mild days of today and Veterans Day!  Note the ominous "purple" lurking in the northern plains...pointed right at us!  Also keep in mind that these graphics are in °C so one can roughly double the numbers to determine °F...

Now the 5 day period ending the 21st...next Friday...

Here is the coldest 5 day period for us here in PA...essentially the next work week...M-F!  That is incredible for a FIVE DAY AVERAGE for temps... Brrrr...

The overnight control run of the Euro was quite bullish for snowfall in these parts...

But it has come to its senses with the midday run...looks more reasonable to me, but certainly hinting at some fierce cold for this time of year on tap...

So there you have it...looking as if the cold season will arrive a week or 2 prior to Thanksgiving...hard to believe as we had quite a nice fall to this point in terms of temps and precip...no tropical troubles, no early freezes.  In fact, my wife's green thumbs' efforts were still blooming up until the hard freeze we experienced Sunday night.  But now we transition quickly to the cold season...with the million dollar question being is this what the winter forebodes or is this just an anomalous cold shot?  From all I read, it appears that this cold pattern might be perpetual through the winter months...time will tell.  Which means I'll be drinking some cold coffee and cold tea this winter as my ADD kicks in when I'm in a flow state perusing this weather stuff...so I'll leave y'all with a Cowboy Junkies tune...Cold Tea Blues...a nice acoustic bluesy song!  Enjoy...

And enjoy your Veterans'/Armistice Day...which coincidentally there was a major blizzard back around the WW II times in the Midwest on this day I believe...but if any of you are interested, simply google it...you don't need to know it to read about it!  Oh well...

Smitty

AA:  The cold will be large and in charge for the next 2-3 weeks of November in these parts!