Good Tuesday evening everyone!

I’ll just cut to the chase and talk about the only topic to discuss right now.  As I’m sure most of  you have already heard, there are rumors around of a potential winter storm that could affect our area over the weekend.  Well anyone who has been following me for any length of time knows I just about don’t talk about stuff beyond the day 5 time frame as that is what I call fantasy land.  Once a system moves into the 3-5 day time frame it has migrated into the realm of possibility.  Well we have a system to track.  But but but…this may not be our system.  We will get rain…and lots of it.  The big question is will we get any winter precip.  That’s the real challenge for us.

This system will be marginal for us to get winter weather as the models have been consistently showing the highest threat of accumulating snow or anything else frozen being places to our NE.  If you want the real jackpot for this storm then take a trip to far NW NC mountains.  We are so borderline here it’s just about impossible at this time to say whether or not we will get anything besides a cold rain.  Higher elevations above 2000 feet stand the best chance of getting any snow at this time.  We are still looking at a Saturday start time for the rain so this deal is still a ways off and the forecast will likely change.  As it stands now the best guess is for rain on Saturday possibly mixing with snow early Saturday night before turning back over to rain or possibly rain and sleet.  As the system pulls off to our east on Sunday, wrap around moisture could bring some light snow or rain snow.

Best chance for any accumulations will be the highest elevations along and north of the spine of the apps.  This system is just as close to being a decent snow for us as it is just being a cold rain.  Snow supporting upper level temps are super marginal right now.  This is going to be a major snow maker for parts of NC and very close to parts of NE GA so I will be tracking this system super close.  Just ask my wife as I’m always on my phone looking at the new data as it arrives.  LOL.

Stand tuned as updates will be coming more frequent as this dynamic system gets closer to go time.

Jason