Looks to be trending in the wrong direction for holiday snow lovers. Might be another somewhat warm and dry Christmas this year. But we still got enough time for this to flip but not much. The window is rapidly closing.
Looking like a snoozefest for the next 7-10 days or so as most of the winter activity gets confined north of I70. Though the CFS has a dream scenario painted out for White Christmas lovers with a storm moving through the area on Christmas Eve/Day with a deeper dip in the NW flow pattern. Will have to watch to see if that trends as it gets closer.
Some high-res models showing potential for some snow flurries for Thanksgiving over parts of NW AR and SW MO. We shall see what happens. Classic winter NW flow pattern.
Since we are almost into November, I figured I would go ahead and start this new thread for the 2025-2026 winter season. Current ENSO indicates a weak La Nina to Neutral type winter. Snow and cold forecasts could go either way.
Feel free to share your thoughts and forecasts for this upcoming winter.
Only picked up 6-7 inches here in Fayetteville. Was hard to measure accurately due to the blowing snow. So the crazy forecast trend did bust as I suspected. Dry air intrusion along with warmer midlevels turning the precip into a snow/sleet mix at times cut down on totals quite a bit.
Snowing pretty good here at work in Springdale, AR with the ground already getting covered including streets and parking lots. Started as snow and started sticking almost immediately to all surfaces. Currently down to 26F so I expect the snow ratios to start increasing here.
At this point the only real fail scenarios will be seen thru nowcasting.
#1. A stronger warm nose shows up cutting down on the snow turning it into one big sleet storm for a good portion of the event.
#2. A stronger than anticipated dry slot cutting off moisture altogether.
There's still a chance these totals get halved by morning but its looking less likely overall.
Man, all the major short range convective models are murdering much of NE OK, SW MO, and NW AR. So crazy to see this the night before the event.
(do note the two 00z WRF runs weren't even finished running thru at the time of posting)
Yeah this is shaping up to being a once in a decade type event. Possibly comparable to the Feb 9th, 2011 storm that dumped 2+ feet over NE OK and NW AR.
Im still waiting for Lucy to pull the football on this. Might come down to the day of. I remember someone talking about warm air intrusion in the upper levels turning this into a sleet storm. Fingers crossed for no doughnut holes either. That one over the Tulsa Metro a while back was insane.
I like monitoring their DSP page. It just updated not too long ago here. I do think it will get revised up as we get closer. Betting watches will extend down to I-40 once they issue theirs. https://www.weather.gov/tsa/dsp