WEATHER DISCUSSION – Friday December 20, 2024 –
Some snow this weekend, and every day next week!
Today we see sunshine and mild temperatures under a ridge of high pressure. Saturday and Sunday begin our next series of snow storms, moving in late day Saturday, another later Sunday, not big storm systems with much support, but more frequent and better snowfalls are expected next week, starting Tuesday as a stronger system moves in, on later Tuesday through early Wednesday, then another later Wednesday (these times will vary, but 2 systems move in, looking strong enough for some snow day criteria snowfalls). The day after Christmas and that weekend stay busy with fresh snow each day, and plenty of cold air to keep the snow around, even “fluffy” as the pattern looks very active.
LONGER RANGE
It is looking like a snowy New Year’s Eve and Day, then as we move into early January 2025, very cold air may drop south into the area due to a highly amplified N-S pressure pattern, with strong high-pressure ridging over Alaska, and low pressure over or south of Southern California, dragging very cold modified arctic air into the region, for single digits and colder sub-zero temperatures on the mountain free-air temps (to -5F at 10k feet), not “radiational cooling”, so this could be when most will test out their layers as wind could be a part of this also. Snowforecast.com Meteorologist/ Chris Manly (I have been actively forecasting weather and snow for ski resorts since 1998)
