Here Comes Winter....With A Sneak Peak This Weekend

The first nor'easter of the year is about to develop across the East as cold modified air rushes in from Canada. This will likely produce the first snow flurries all across the Ohio Valley and eventually as far south as the Appalachians and into the interior Northeast.


What I have my eyes on is a developing cold air mass in NW Canada and Pacific Jet stream that will likely buckle by mid month. As we could see our first major snowstorm of the year from the Central Plains and East into the Mid-Atlantic. Followed by freezing temperatures into the south from Texas to Georgia as temperatures could be in the single digits to teens across the north. Right now the time of arrival for this first major bout of winter looks to arrive between the 13th-16th of the month. Below is first the latest ensemble run of the 500mb anomaly and the latest 8-14 anomaly composite.