No White Christmas

A week ago I made a post about a potential storm system to move through this week.  It wasn't looking very promising at the time and now it can be said that it doesn't look promising at all if you are looking for snow.

The storm comes charging in Thursday night into Friday.  However the track took this one far enough inland that there isn't even a debate on what we are going to see.  This one is going to be a rain event.  Like many before it and I'm sure a few after, there is also a chance of wrap around snow on the back end of the storm as well as a new wave of cold air to follow.

Diagram of storm with some added features below:

It is safe to say that we won't see a white Christmas this year.  We might not see measurable snow at all.  It's a bit disappointing but it was somewhat called for since most of the transitioning is to take place from January on.  We at least will see a cold Christmas with temps after this storm to drop into the 30's until the next chance for a storm after Christmas where we could end up on the warm side again.

We have to wait patiently though it can be difficult when you look at the national maps.  20 states have some sort of winter watches including cities like Portland, Salt Lake City, Denver and Des Moines as  multiple storms take shape in every area of the country.

And we get fog for at least one more day.  Monitoring the massive storm that is taking shape for after Christmas that the Weather Channel can give a stupid name.  Right now it cuts up towards Chicago.

If it makes you feel any better we have seen more snow than Rochester.  Lake effect snow season has been absolutely non-existent.