Pre Christmas Weekend Well, here we are just a few days before Christmas and I'm still trying to make some Holiday snow! It's not going to be easy...but first things first. Today our flow out of the East will continue and that will bank a lot of moisture up against the mountains. There should not be much in the way of showers during the day, but overnight the atmosphere will saturate and we'll start to get fog, drizzle and light showers. On Sunday, a strong cold front will sweep through late in the day. The surface winds will turn to the South and the temps will jump into the 50s. There is a good chance for showers...possibly a t-storm...as the front goes through. The wind may gust over 30 MPH as well.
I still see a short wave in the 500 MB flow on all of the models coming out of the Southern Plains on Monday. It has a nice little vorticity maximum that will pass just South of us as well late on Christmas Day. At the surface, the models don't really do much with this wave...I don't really understand that. So, with that said, I will keep a chance for some light snow showers or flurries in the forecast for the afternoon on Christmas and into the night. I'll keep an eye on this thing...this is the kind of situation where one run of the models finally catches on...then boom...there's a snowstorm on the maps. We'll see....

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