Winter 2022-2023

[cgauxknox]

Bruce, I have had the experience of tending my smoker during severe thunderstorms on Christmas Day, so if you can have your dreams we can have ours!   

[Bruce]

Bruce, I have had the experience of tending my smoker during severe thunderstorms on Christmas Day, so if you can have your dreams we can have ours!   

yea, but WE all want a white christmas... i just gave up on that lol

[snowdog]

some of us go through this every christmas period, we all want a white christmas it just puts anyone into the christmas spirit of course. but lets be honest, we just dont live at a good area for that to take place outside the mountains. but we can always dream of one i guess

Yeah, you won't get many of them in your lifetime here, but that is what makes them special.

[Bruce]

Yeah, you won't get many of them in your lifetime here, but that is what makes them special.

just think, if Christmas was just two weeks later there no telling how many white Christmas s we would have had. Lol

[cgauxknox]

just think, if Christmas was just two weeks later there no telling how many white Christmas s we would have had. Lol

Celebrating two weeks later is an option for us in Appalachia: https://rethinkrural.raydientplaces.com/blog/the-appalachian-tradition-of-old-christmas

[StormNine]

just think, if Christmas was just two weeks later there no telling how many white Christmas s we would have had. Lol

Snow is not all that common the first week of January especially since 2000 (with last year being a notable exception) White New Years are even rarer than a White Christmas.   

[Bruce]

Snow is not all that common the first week of January especially since 2000 (with last year being a notable exception) White New Years are even rarer than a White Christmas.   

that wasn’t the case 70s and the 80s.  Promise … first week January usually marked first
Snow

[Dyersburg Weather]

that wasn’t the case 70s and the 80s.  Promise … first week January usually marked first
Snow

You could count on it most years the first week of January.

[Clarksville Snowman]

some of us go through this every christmas period, we all want a white christmas it just puts anyone into the christmas spirit of course. but lets be honest, we just dont live at a good area for that to take place outside the mountains. but we can always dream of one i guess

No kidding, I thought we lived in snow storm alley for Christmas.😆But it has happened and probably will again at some point. If not snow on Christmas hopefully it will feel like it with temps. 

[StormNine]

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The final winter outlook   

[Thundersnow]

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The final winter outlook

In a very general sense, I like that look.

[Bruce]

In a very general sense, I like that look.

also like the look, thinking coldest air stays off the west northwest of our region .

[Golfmankevin]

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The final winter outlook

Steven, I like the image. Like we all do, we hope we see one or two decent winter events this winter. 

[StormNine]

also like the look, thinking coldest air stays off the west northwest of our region .

It was tempting to put a Much Below Average section over the Dakotas/Eastern Montana.  The progressive nature of this pattern so far in the fall was the only reason I didn't do that.   

[StormNine]

https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/snow-extent-northern-hemisphere-highest-56-years-winter-cold-rrc/?fbclid=IwAR3EpLP2FkZ2mOPA9VQIULL0QhI_-VZ79V9y0uqbrfZ5ZuCCvCedzX1ygEc

This is one reason why I included a large below average temperature chunk in my winter outlook.