Cold and Dry, then ...

...Warm and Wet.  I'm very disappointed that I had many people looking forward to a 2nd major snow event prior to Christmas.  As soon as I put that word out, both the GFS and Euro went south...and stayed south for the most part!  The winter storm that will traverse across the southland this weekend will be a shut down storm for the Carolinas and southern VA...but for us, it will simply pull more modified arctic air into our region until a major winter storm passes to our west next weekend.  Here we go...

First the temps and precip (none until next weekend!)  A cold of it to be sure...

Then the storm system that will deliver the goods to the southlands...the graphic below looks reasonable to me...

And then the liquid sunshine for us next weekend...a huge cyclone...

...with no cold air means heavy rains...again!  The map below is only for a 6 hour period.  This could deliver and easy 2" rainfall...AGAIN!

OK...with that, I'm off to bed.  I'm sorry if I got anyone too excited with my hinting at a good bet for a winter storm this weekend!  Oh well...enjoy!

I'm out...

Smitty