Pattern December, Make analogs relevant again

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For the first time in at least several GFS runs, the 0Z GFS has a very nice tall western ridge early next week. Let's see how this plays out the rest of next week.
 
Regardless of the rest of the weather, this year looks to be a vast improvement over last year simply based on the projected temperatures for December. I'm hoping that we won't take the typical La Na "early spring" route until late February.
 
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Well hot dog, Phil would get his long awaited bug killing 1st freeze next week on Thu 12/14 per the 0Z GFS!
The tall western ridge means business on this run for next week.
 
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Well what do you know, the 0Z GEFS is the coldest run in at least 4 and is quite cold over most of the E 1/2 of the US all of next week and well into the following week!

Edit: The -AO looks solid on this run all of the way to the end, which would be analog consistent.
 
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both Euro and Gfs 00z runs pretty similar up to 240, 500mb pattern-wise... Gfs, tries to 'zone' out towards end of the run, and Christmas time... We'll see.
 
MRX taking out any small chance for snow shower activity this weekend for southern Tn valley.. guess I can't blame them:
.LONG TERM...(Thursday through Tuesday)...The theme for Thursday
through Friday Night will be that the Tennessee Valley/southern
Appalachians will be between the northern stream storm track (over
the Great Lakes/upper Ohio Valley) and southern stream (from Texas
across the southeast United States). Plenty of high level clouds
will remain, but precipitation will be rather limited.

For Saturday, latest GFS and ECMWF agree with taking a fast moving
short-wave farther north across the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley and
just brushing southwest virginia and northeast Tennessee with light
precipitation. A mixture of snow and rain showers are expected.
Limited snow accumulations are possible across the higher
elevations, such as High Knob, especially Saturday night.

For Sunday and Monday, dry west to northwest flow aloft and
surface ridging will produce dry conditions and milder
temperatures for Monday.

For Monday night and Tuesday, another short-wave dives toward the
Ohio/Tennessee Valleys. Precipitation in for the form of snow is
possible, but the evolution of the system will likely change, so will
not get too specific.


--------for what it's worth, nrgjeff over at americanwx basically put the poo-poo on this 12 hours ago for the CHA area. Good call. He's a damn good met/poster btw, wish he posted over here too.
 
MRX taking out any small chance for snow shower activity this weekend for southern Tn valley.. guess I can't blame them:
.LONG TERM...(Thursday through Tuesday)...The theme for Thursday
through Friday Night will be that the Tennessee Valley/southern
Appalachians will be between the northern stream storm track (over
the Great Lakes/upper Ohio Valley) and southern stream (from Texas
across the southeast United States). Plenty of high level clouds
will remain, but precipitation will be rather limited.

For Saturday, latest GFS and ECMWF agree with taking a fast moving
short-wave farther north across the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley and
just brushing southwest virginia and northeast Tennessee with light
precipitation. A mixture of snow and rain showers are expected.
Limited snow accumulations are possible across the higher
elevations, such as High Knob, especially Saturday night.

For Sunday and Monday, dry west to northwest flow aloft and
surface ridging will produce dry conditions and milder
temperatures for Monday.

For Monday night and Tuesday, another short-wave dives toward the
Ohio/Tennessee Valleys. Precipitation in for the form of snow is
possible, but the evolution of the system will likely change, so will
not get too specific.


--------for what it's worth, nrgjeff over at americanwx basically put the poo-poo on this 12 hours ago for the CHA area. Good call. He's a damn good met/poster btw, wish he posted over here too.

I trust him more than any other meteorologist. I may not post a whole lot but I've been on these boards since 09/10 and he is completely unbiased and he is right way more times than he is wrong. if anyone gets a chance you should pop over to the Tennessee Valley forum and read the things he has to say. He's the best MET on the boards in my opinion.
 
I trust him more than any other meteorologist. I may not post a whole lot but I've been on these boards since 09/10 and he is completely unbiased and he is right way more times than he is wrong. if anyone gets a chance you should pop over to the Tennessee Valley forum and read the things he has to say. He's the best MET on the boards in my opinion.
Ughh! I just want some flurries