White Christmas?

[double D]

Wow...check this out...this would put most of texas below freezing with precipitation, with the 540 line even at houston!

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod ... _312.shtml

yeah, I just saw that too! It would be crazy if it played out!

Just remember that the GFS is usually out in la la land this far out. Let's wait and see if it has any support from the Euro when it starts showing it's solution for Christmas Day.

[Extremeweatherguy]

Wow...check this out...this would put most of texas below freezing with precipitation, with the 540 line even at houston!

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod ... _312.shtml

yeah, I just saw that too! It would be crazy if it played out!

Just remember that the GFS is usually out in la la land this far out. Let's wait and see if it has any support from the Euro when it starts showing it's solution for Christmas Day.

yeah, I'd agree there. It is in la-la land at that range. However, it is interesting to see such a run. Let's just hope we see similar things once it gets closer to the day.

[MGC]

The GFS picked up the 2004 Christmas snow event days in advance. It (GFS) flipped flopped seveal times over the next several runs. The GFS did get it right though. We shall see if the GFS is right again, hope so....MGC

[JonathanBelles]

i want a much larger snow event that covered from florida to texas, is it possible?

[Johnny]

Just remember that the GFS is usually out in la la land this far out.

Man, if I had a dollar for every time I heard that leading up to the Christmas snow of 2004 I'd be a rich man. Well, maybe not rich but I would of had enough money to by myself a dinner at Joe's Crab Shack!

Seriously, the chances are very slim for this to verify BUT it will be getting colder around this time period. I've seen a few sources say that we could get pretty darn chilly and I've heard other sources say possibly back to average temps or slightly below. With this said, I've also seen that we could be going into a wet pattern leading up to Christmas weekend. That leads me to believe that the GFS isn't that far out into la la land. The GFS seems to be picking up on the pattern during this time period which I pretty much agree with. What I'm not buying is frozen precipitation during this time period for obvious reasons. I mean, come on! What are the chances?

The GFS picked up the 2004 Christmas snow event days in advance.

After reading through the archives the other night, the GFS picked up on it at least two weeks in advance and held onto it for days. Of course it did some flip flopping leading up to Christmas but never entirely dropped the idea.

[Extremeweatherguy]

the 00Z GFS is coming in now. It should be interesting to see what this run shows.

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

The GFS picked up the 2004 Christmas snow event days in advance. It (GFS) flipped flopped seveal times over the next several runs. The GFS did get it right though. We shall see if the GFS is right again, hope so....MGC

The GFS and Bastardi actually got something right so far out..

[Extremeweatherguy]

00Z GFS continues the trend of very cold air (except this time the 24th instead of the 25th), but it also shows considerably less moisture:

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod ... _276.shtml

If this run were to verify, it would mean a cold holiday, but no snow.

Hopefully future runs will bring the moisture back into the picture.

[f5]

we contines to talk about south Texas first white christmas folks that was an anmnoly which preceeded the granddaddy of all hurricane season the one with 28 named storms 4 CAT 5s with one putting Gilbert to shame

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

00Z GFS continues the trend of very cold air (except this time the 24th instead of the 25th), but it also shows considerably less moisture:

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod ... _276.shtml

If this run were to verify, it would mean a cold holiday, but no snow.

Hopefully future runs will bring the moisture back into the picture.

Hopefully the El Nino moisture train will be our friend. I'll take cloudy and damp too along with the cold because it would limit heating during the day which makes the use of the fireplace all day much more enjoyable.

[Janie2006]

There's always a White Christmas here. Anyone whom wants to can come shovel all the white Christmas they want to off my driveway. Free of charge!

*snicker*

Nice try!

I'll be happy just to get some nice chilly air back down here for Christmas.

I drove past this sign for a Methodist church advertising a "Winter Wonderland with real snow!" on the way to the university today.

Sigh.

[f5]

There's always a White Christmas here. Anyone whom wants to can come shovel all the white Christmas they want to off my driveway. Free of charge!

well DUH of course the Rocky Mountains are going to have a white christmas if not we be talking about global warming right now.

[wall_cloud]

Man, if I had a dollar for every time I heard that leading up to the Christmas snow of 2004 I'd be a rich man. Well, maybe not rich but I would of had enough money to by myself a dinner at Joe's Crab Shack!

you just never hear the model busts. Only the human busts

[CrazyC83]

Even up here, there may not be a white Christmas...over 16 inches of snow in the first week of December has practically melted leaving only snowbanks...and more rain is expected this weekend...