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There is still a shot at some snow late week, probably Friday. Multiple cold fronts coming through mid week into the weekend with all sorts of vorticity in the flow. Hard for models to pin down. Probably something on the lighter side if it does happen.

Ground zero

No freezing fog at the house this morning. It's currently 25 which is my low. Snow makers are busy up at Cataloochee and Tube World here in town. I'm not expecting much from the system coming in overnight into tomorrow. Late this week we are likely to get the coldest air of the season as lobes of Arctic air heads our way. It's too soon to know if we will have precipitation arriving with the Arctic front.

Another Sunday morning waking up to the goods. 7" on the mark.

100% frozen deck and steps from last night. Glad Im not driving the school bus this morning. My route takes me to the top of Rutherford off HWY 226 near the game lands of south. Lots of little bridges around. But the fog was a frozen last night .

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Not so sure about the Christmas torch, at least according to yesterday's Euro weeklies. https://charts.ecmwf.int/products/extended-anomaly-2t?base_time=202512060000&projection=opencharts_north_america&valid_time=202512150000

Temp is 23 and the tree branches have a thin frosty glaze from overnight freezing fog. Quite pretty with the low sun filtered through the clouds.

It’s still there, just not a blizzard on the OP run like 18z…more of a high end advisory or low end warning look on 06z. I’d like to see a bit more amped western ridge to dig this thing more but the system is pretty evident on guidance.

Hey.. at least VA gets more cold smoke tomorrow. The annual Christmas torch looks to be gaining legs. Hopefully this isn't our two weeks of winter for the season lol

That's what we want to see at this point. Models keying in on signals, but won't lock on to an actual possible storm for several days. Let's keep that trend. On another note, I wonder how much of our warming is caused by excessive flatulence due to excessive beer consumption?

Kind of lost the 12-13th . Just keeps getting pushed back

Really could be interesting!

Miserable runs for many.

I think that was the last time/year UVA won the Capital One Cup too.

Really different type of setup for this neck of the woods for tomorrow. Has Norlun Trough like characteristics, whereas those setups normally happen more in the Northeast. Inverted trough looks to enhance precip. Someone may get a decent surprise out of this.

The Department of Sanitation was in its own insular bubble that day with no idea of the imminent storm, even as Philadelphia was seeing 1/4-mile visibilities for hours. Maybe they could have followed observations here and learned about the snow.

I keep waiting to wake up to good news or potential but nope...

The runoff is leading to higher salt content in the drinking water supply for areas around NYC and NJ. https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-reservoirs-salt-c5d67e6c626878d0993974498c4629b6 The suburban reservoirs that supply 10% of New York City’s vaunted drinking water are getting saltier due to decades of road salt being spread near the system — and they will eventually have to be abandoned if nothing is done to reverse the trend, city officials warn. https://patch.com/new-jersey/bridgewater/salty-taste-nj-drinking-water-linked-use-salt-brine-roads NEW JERSEY — Have you noticed a salty taste in your water recently? New Jersey American Water said it is due to the use of salt and brine for public safety during the recent extreme winter weather and ongoing drought conditions. The water company shared a notice with customers about the change in taste on Friday.

we continue to trend out west

Overnight runs still look good for around mid month. NAO dimly negative with a flip around mid-month. PNA about to drop solidly in the next week-10 days. These 2 indices bode well for storm threats materializing. Op runs still showing numerous s/w in the overall amplifying flow which is a good sign. Ensm also show the overall trend to a more amplified pattern coming, albeit for a brief stint. A threat will materialize for the area, specifics still be determined. I’m not sold on a single threat either. I see multiple opportunities for some to cash in.

I could hear the crickets in here before I opened the thread lol

Also cant deny under 120 hrs most of these LR trends have negated. We are stuck is a pattern of sliders. shredders, and late messy phases.

Been that way for days. More like NNE.