Snow for Christmas? Joe Bastardi like it

[Thundersnow]

Before anyone calls me out, I may have been interpreting the color coding on the infrared satellite wrongly.    The "warmer" colors are drier air, I think, while the cooler colors are were the colder cloud tops are with more precipitation.

Still... you can definitely see the spin in the atmosphere.

[Curt]

Dallas area now starting to get accumulating snow with temps above freezing for the most part. Can we say dynamic??

100 PM CST THU DEC 24 2009

NOTE: "FAIR" INDICATES FEW OR NO CLOUDS BELOW 12,000 FEET WITH NO
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND/OR OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISIBILITY.

TXZ118-119-242000-
DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX

CITY           SKY/WX    TMP DP  RH WIND       PRES   REMARKS
DFW AIRPORT    SNOW      34  30  86 NW28G43   29.56R VSB 1/4 WCI  20
DALLAS LOVE    LGT SNOW  34  32  93 NW25G40   29.57R FOG     WCI  21
FTW MEACHAM    LGT SNOW  34  32  93 NW25G37   29.59R FOG     WCI  21
DAL-EXECUTIVE  LGT SNOW  34  32  93 W23G31    29.57R VSB 3/4 WCI  22
FTW-ALLIANCE   SNOW      33  29  85 NW18G37   29.59R VSB 1/2 WCI  22
FTW-NAS-JRB    LGT SNOW  34  28  80 NW25G40   29.66R WCI  21
FTW-SPINKS     LGT SNOW  34  32  93 W23G31    29.62R VSB 1   WCI  22
ARLINGTON      LGT SNOW  37  31  78 NW20G36   29.59R WCI  27

[Thundersnow]

Conditions deteriorating in Oklahoma... state of emergency declared; stretches of interstate are now closed (including I-40 and I-44); the OKC airport is closed or at least cancelling flights.

Parts of the state are now expected to see drifts up to five feet.

[Thundersnow]

My brothers have been driving in from W. Oklahoma all night, I hope they make it in.

I hope they got ahead of the worst of it by now.  No one is getting out of central or western OK right now, not easily anyway.

[McKinley Fairbanks]

I just looked at the radar site and OK looks like it is buried in snow and it might be headed across the Mississippi to the Mid West. I remember a snow in West TN about 1967 or 68 that came in like a lion and buried us and really dumped on Nashville because that was higher ground.  We just might be in for it.

[Thundersnow]

Oh, I have no doubt that the low will take a hard left... making heroic efforts to avoid affecting TN with anything significant, snow-wise.  That's how it always works. 

Maybe, some of us might see something flying in the air tomorrow.

[beth]

My brothers left at 10:30 OK. time last night.  They drove all night in the rain and got here at 11:00 this morning.  They were running ahead of the storm thank goodness. They talked to their neighbor when they got here and she said the power was out and they already had a half a foot of snow and blizzard like conditions.  They lucked out by leaving when they did. 

[Curt]

Just looking at radar, I think Dallas is going to end up with 2-4 in. Temps are below freezing there and road accums cant be too far off with the loss of daylight. Near blizzard there as well, not as bad as OKC though.

[dwagner88]

Temp went up to 62 earlier this afternoon and then rapidly fell back down to 52 when the rain started. looks like another 2-inch plus event here. whoopdeedoo. I'm gonna hit 70 inches on the year at this rate.

[Snowmachine]

I've already had a little over 86 inches this year! Thats the wettest I have recorded and that goes back to 1984.

[dwagner88]

I've already had a little over 86 inches this year! Thats the wettest I have recorded and that goes back to 1984.

That is insane! where are you located? that much rain qualifies your area as a temperate rainforest!

[Snowmachine]

I live 8 miles west of Woodbury in Cannon County. I've got detailed records for everyday going back to 1984.

[jmundie]

Looking at the short range models, they don't seem to have a good handle on where this system is headed. None had such a strong deformation band, and they also seem to lose the entire band as the system goes negative tilt, which doesn't seem to make sense.

Gonna be obsessing watching the low track and radar trends this evening. Hopefully we can squeak out a dusting sometime tomorrow (or better yet,this thing never turns hard north and we get a nice surprise snowstorm (wouldn't hold my breath on the latter)

[Snowmachine]

You never can tell what the weather is gonna do here in TN. I hope it dont turn to the north, if it dont we'll be in business again! 

[Kevin]

MEG squashes the snow hopes...(sorry)

AS 
COLDER AIR BEGINS TO MOVE INTO THE REGION AFTER MIDNIGHT...THE 
RAIN MAY MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SNOW. WITH THE GROUND REMAINING 
QUITE WARM AND WET DO NO EXPECT ANY ACCUMULATIONS. 
 
MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOW A DRY LAYER FROM THE SURFACE TO ABOUT 2000 
FEET CHRISTMAS MORNING WITH QUITE A BIT OF MOISTURE ABOVE THIS 
LAYER. SNOW MAY TRY TO FALL DURING THE MORNING HOURS BUT MAY HAVE 
A HARD TIME REACHING THE GROUND SO AGAIN LITTLE OR NO ACCUMULATION 
IS EXPECTED.