Blizzard of 93

Steady light snow continues in Marysville! The roads & all surfaces caved! Beautiful way to end Christmas evening!

It’s snowing again now in Marysville! 2 rounds of snow on Christmas Day is a win!

Same here! Official Christmas coating!

Nice!

Legit moderate snow is coming down now in Marysville! It is sticking to all surfaces!

Christmas Flurries have started in Marysville!

The 12z GFS is on board for a period of light snow today for many of us... maybe a solid coating?

This still counts as snow on the ground in Christmas in my book! There are several areas of plowed & shoveled snow in my neighborhood that survived the torch monsoon yesterday! Also, go & check out the Mid Atlantic thread. Many reports now of light snow in MD & northern VA. The radar looks to be blossoming to our south & west. I think we that we have the chance to get some light snow or snow showers in the LSV in the next couple of hours!

The 3k NAM 12z run likes the idea today of developing snow showers over a good part of the Susquehanna Valley. Maybe a Christmas dusting will still be possible to brighten the holiday spirit today?

Merry Christmas everyone! The Euro Weeklies last night keep the -NAO pattern going until late January. We should get snow chances in this pattern. I saw recently that @psuhoffman claimed the period from January 5th to the 15th as the window to watch for winter storm chances for our region. Our time will come if this type of pattern persists for several weeks. We just need to be patient!

@MAG5035 How is the cold front doing in your Area now? What are your thoughts on the prospects of seeing some snow from your area over to the Susquehanna Valley tomorrow?

Thank goodness! We don’t need more rain...

It’s not too far away...western PA & WV are getting good snow later today and Warnings are up for them!

Crazy weather day in store for us this Christmas Eve! I am happy to be waking up on Christmas Eve morning with snow on the ground! Hopefully those 4 hours of sleet that we didn’t enjoy last week will help to fight off the melting from the rain and 1 day warm up today! Maybe we can get a fresh coating of snow for Christmas morning?

Here is the look 12 hours later after that 240 hour Euro Op run on the 0z EPS....This has potential....

This pattern as we begin 2021 is still loaded with potential. The blocking looks to continue to build and persist through the end of the 15 day 0z EPS run. It is just a matter of time until we are tracking a specific winter storm threat.

The 0z Euro last night showed a Winter storm getting ready to move in to our region at the end of the 10 day run. Our time will eventually come...patience...

Yes, it sure does.

The 12z GFS today gave an example of the type of storm that this pattern could deliver. I would sign up for this storm right now! Again, we just need to be patient!

Here is the 7 day pattern on the 12z EPS for the first week of January. I also included the 7 day precip anomaly showing above normal precip up and down the East coast. It is like someone allowed @pasnownut and I to draw the map! We just need to be patient and this pattern should deliver some snow by the first week of January.

I agree... but I’m just happy to be going to sleep on the night before Christmas Eve with a good amount of snow on the ground. We might lose most of it tomorrow except for the large plowed and shoveled piles. Hopefully we can manage a dusting to perhaps a heavy coating on Christmas morning to add to the festivities.

Once the blocking gets established and migrates to a slightly more west based -NAO position, we should be back in the snow business. If the system towards New Year’s Eve can come out in pieces, it would allow it to be more progressive to perhaps slide under us. The blocking looks to be sustained in the long range and the AO & NAO are forecasted to remain negative over at least the next 2 weeks. If we remain patient, we should receive the snow goods eventually in this pattern.

Patience is the key... just like in early December when it looked like we would have chances, it just took a little time. It will be tough to not score a decent winter Event or two by the first week of January with the blocking pattern setting up.

The 0z Euro has a Winter Storm for us right in time to say goodbye to 2020! The low tracks from the TN/NC border to just off of the DelMarVa at the end of the run. It looks to be a slow mover with the blocking, so there would be more to follow if the run kept going.

We soon will be tracking a specific winter storm threat for next week. This week kind of reminds me of the first week of December when we knew the pattern looked to have potential. We knew there were chances upcoming, but we could not yet pinpoint which storm would deliver the goods, which arrived in a big way last Wednesday. There appears to be chances on the horizon next week in the early, middle & latter part of New Year’s weekend. Which one will be the one, or will we have multiple chances to cash in? The -AO & -NAO support our chances along with an active pipeline of storms. Models usually struggle with a developing blocking pattern, so it will probably take a few days to hone in on the specific threats.