Earlier today I was thinking I should accelerate the timing of putting my studs on (soon!), but now I’m feeling better about waiting a bit longer. I’m also VERY glad I didn’t go nuts on putting real cold weather or snow in my 7 Day forecast!
That’s because this evening all 3 main long range models have decided that we’ll continue to have mild and/or boring weather through next week. Take a look at the 12z GFS Ensemble 850mb temps, really cold around Wednesday-Thursday next week, then a gradual warming trend. But here is the new 00z….gruesome if you want cold weather:
The 00z ECMWF just came out and returns the upper level ridge right over the top of us by Day 10 (12th of December). So that doesn’t leave a lot of hope for a big pattern change…we’ll see. It’s very unusual to have a long dry spell, more than 5 days or so, in December. The GFS shows little to no rain in the next two weeks!
Chief Meteorologist Mark Nelsen