Still Snow Dancing...

The way things are are going as we head into mid-December this could be one of the driest starts to the season in over a decade.  La Nina is strengthening and eventually the pattern will have to change as we go into Winter. 

During the 07-08 La Nina season we saw a pretty dramatic turn around in the pattern in January and February bringing the much below average snowfall to above average within only a few weeks.  We are hoping for the same turn around this year.

We will get a little taste of Winter on Thursday as the next cold front comes as we will see some light snowfall. The forecast model runs from today were still showing around 3-6 inches of snowfall and then some more cold air behind the storm going into the weekend.

This is not the big dump of snow that we are looking for but it will be nice to see some natural snow fall on top of all the man-made snow. As we go into the following week things look to get more active in the Pacific NW. As long as storms are coming onshore up there some of the storms could drop in a little further South and bring us snow.

Looking long-term it looks like as we go towards the end of the month and into January blocking could begin to form near Alaska. That would suppress the jetstream further South and could finally mean a breakthrough of the Westerlies. Stay tuned....BA