Ok, Now Here Comes Winter

Have you enjoyed the warm temps the past few days? So far every day has hit 50° in December, which is a very warm rarity. But that changes now. Here comes the much advertised cold from that'll bring permanent winter air our way:

Expect gusts up to 40mph this afternoon and temps dropping to the 30s before sunset. That'll be a shock to the system to some of these warm weather lovers around here. For people like me? I know what it means.

SNOW.

Ok, don't get too excited. This doesn't mean we'll get 12" in the next week. But little bouts of snow showers could be possible a couple times in the near future:

Wednesday

Nothing much to see here. There's a chance of flurries as the cold air spills in behind today's cold front.

Saturday

Even with it being several days out, there's a pretty good consensus with models that we should see a clipper dive through the Great Lakes Friday night in to Saturday. Again, I'm not thinking this is a huge event by any means, but a quick inch wouldn't be out of the question:

Beyond that I'm thinking we could see another clipper a couple days later. That's way too far out to track just yet, but the point I'm making is the pattern is finally here. After weeks of nothingness, we're active and cold. 

As far out as 10 days away we're still in a very cold pattern, too. Continuous reinforcing shots of cold air are spilling in behind each clipper, keeping us a solid 10-15° below normal. The combination of cold and activeness should lead to some light snow once every 2-3 days as long as this pattern continues. 

Good news for us snow lovers, bad news for everyone else.