You can never tell with long-range forecasts, but the 14-day forecast for most of the US shows a mass of cold air and snow in places that don’t typically see it around December 25th. Yes, it looks like a white Christmas is headed our way, bringing cold air with it.
Coldest Christmas with most widespread snow over since 2000 IMO.
GEFS Christmas temp anomalies vs 2000, and enemble snow before that. Impressive for an ensemble that far out. Coldest DN -24 pic.twitter.com/TLJeieFAZ6— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) December 12, 2022
Joe Bastardi has been pretty good at this (it’s his business), so while not gospel, it’s better than your average local news forecast, except for the finer details with which the locals have a spotty record.
And we’ve got this.
Maybe the coldest holiday period for the US in many years pic.twitter.com/B0n7t1VXcO
— Chigeorge (@Chigeorge72) December 12, 2022
Do all the signs point to a very cold US the week and day of Christmas?
I checked a few long-range weather pages across the interwebs (nobody special), and they say Christmas and the surrounding days are not usually cold or precipitous. One predicts heavy rain.
And yet another says snow showers and chilly while (yet another) says extreme cold and heavy snow.
Fourteen days is a long time, and we won’t know until it arrives.
It kind of puts a bright light on all that by 2030, by 2050 nonsense, yes? But I’ll take a white Christmas any year. It’s not like I’m going anywhere that day (as long as I have internet).
HT | WUWT
