If you ask me these two maps scream a few things:
1. We are in the warm phase of El Nino. It's December 24th and those humidity charts are off the charts where is the cold dry air????
2. It's going to be very difficult to move this moisture laden atmosphere out to establish cold air that is sustained.
3. The warming is well undeniable. I could see if it were July or August and we were looking at this humidity map, but even where it is cold it is humid??
4. With that said warmer air holds more water and if it were to snow, I am sure it would be a 1-2 foot plus snowstorm.
5. These are our new normal I am afraid.
6. Any flow whatsoever off of a body of water Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, and now even the Great Lakes warms various levels of the atmosphere especially lower and mid-levels, and this is another obstacle of snow in this new era.
We definitely would need a pattern progression eastward to even sniff a chance.