Measurable Snowfall for the Weekend?

What the GSD Staff does when winter refuses to start in a timely manner? Scrabble, crossword puzzles, read the news, twiddle thumbs, hunt for belly button lint. In other words, a lot of nothing.

But we actually have some winter weather news to report. Far on the horizon, we have officially heard the words "forecast" and "snow" used in the same sentences by meteorologists we respect. Eureka.

There is chatter about the possibility for a weekend storm. Unfortunately--[grumble, grumble, grumble]--it's on the weekend, and we're likely not to see a big snow event out of it. The deal is this: we have precipitation headed our way for Saturday. Some models are forecasting a coastal storm. The models we respect are taking it farther to our south; one model that is less reliable is bringing the storm farther north. As for snow, the worst case scenario is no snow at all. The best case scenario is 3 inches.

This is the best we can do for a forecast map for the weekend. The lighter green represents about a 20%-30% chance of a quarter inch of liquid precip, which equates to 3 inches of snow. Woo. Hoo.

So, you can see, there's not a lot to get excited about. Still, we're encouraged that the storm pattern appears to be shifting and colder air should take hold over our area for the next few weeks. A wise GSD Staffer once said, "You can't have snow without cold air in place."

We'll monitor this potential snow situation for you, but we wouldn't suggesting firing up the snowblower just yet.