LongRanger

Southern slider. The 12z GFS appears about as good as we can get from it around here. If the storm were to wrap up more than depicted, precip type issues would crop up for the big cities. Been following the 11th's storm for two weeks, sorry it's not looking wow for us.

the 18z GFS brings back the cold at the end of the run, with snow to New Orleans at 384, yeah, that's happening

first class wx pr0n, just don't look at the ugly upper air progs

I've had my eye on Jan 10-12 since posting here two weeks ago. Love fairly slow moving systems like it. Someone's going to cash in, but the big cities now look to have mixing concerns. The Jan 5-6 Thing should clear the way for better 10-12th modeling.

18z GFS has -30 to -40 2m temps in northern plains at 276, h5 reminds me of Jan 1977

My Heathkit ID4001 station from the 70s is still working, anemometer and all. Probably going to outlive me. Whether its air temp sensor ever reports below zero again is another matter. At least there's a chance next month.

haven't seen this promising an upcoming pattern in a long time, my eye is on the Jan 10-12 period to cash in on the cold

CFS among others leading the MJO to 7 portends a colder January here

an updated classic: White Hot Christmas

train in the Jan 2000 snow near Baltimore http://www.trainweb.org/oldmainline/oml5.htm#csx_736

First solid freeze at my station near BWI. The 13th briefly touched freezing and froze only some garden annuals here. Too bad the airport fixed their Mr Freeze sensor, think of all the snow/ip/zr they would have otherwise had!

the rare early morning tstorm in late November, must have happened before, but I can't recall when

at 9 pm we're already down to tonight's projected min and the sky overhead is still clear...

32, which was 2 degrees lower than BWI, and which represents a return to the historical station difference. Maybe Mr Freeze has finally left the airport. Some plants froze here, others not, which is the way I confirm the sensor is properly calibrated.

BWI's max was 5 degrees above forecast, which tells me tonight's forecasted min of 30 is also too low, so garden annuals might survive the night. Well, except those near BWI's Mr. Freeze temp sensor.