Euro Consistent With The Pattern Change

Once I cleaned up my desk and departed from school, I arrived at home and first greeted my two four legged wonders (or should I say they greeted me!), treated them to the usual biscuits, brewed a nice cup of decaf (complete with MCT powder), and got to look at the pm runs of the numerical models.  If you are a winter weather enthusiast, well, they did not disappoint.  There looks to be some wx talking over the next several weeks!  It will be quite a change from the rather benign pattern we've been locked into! Let me describe...

First, let's play the game Find the Arctic Front!  Temps will drop throughout the day Wednesday in these parts as true arctic air invades from the NW.  The observations across the state of Florida will be rather interesting that day...Pensacola might be near 40ºF while Jacksonville basks near 80ºF!  Impressive to be sure...

And speaking of Florida, this graphic shows how strong this front will be as anomalous cold moves all the way down the peninsula...amazing!  Graphic below is for next Sunday morning...

For a 5 day average (Wednesday-Sunday), this is noteworthy for this early in the cold season...

And by Sunday, the arctic hounds will feel at home as snow will fly and blanket much of the north country east of the Mississippi setting the stage for repeated cold shots to be longer and possibly even stronger...

At least the longer range climate models (usually warm biased) feel that way.  First, the temp anomalies for December...remember, the graphic below includes the first 6 mild days upcoming!

And even into the 1st 15 days of the new year...

OK...the coffee has been drunk and the doggie biscuits have lost their satiation, at least for our big boy...Ziggy the Flabrador!  He keeps whining to eat his din-din (that little devil...he'll sit still with any humiliating prop just to get that biscuit from the photographer)!

OK...enjoy this ditty to kick off you week's end...I don't think this song gets enough air time...

I'm out...

Smitty

AA:  Looks certain that an acrtic shot will invade the US next Tuesday and reach the east coast by Wednesday.  Make sure you get your outside lights up by then!