12/9/23 Saturday 7:20 am
The nuisance storm earned its name. A couple of inches were all it could muster across the higher elevations, with a little more on Red Mountain Pass.
The next chance of precipitation will likely fall under the category “sometimes it just snows”. It looks like a system will track well south of us mid-week, then spin up into the panhandle. If we’re lucky, a few flurries may make it over the divide. If it tracks north sooner, it could completely change everything. I do not expect that to happen but I will be watching it.
The next real storm I am looking at is around December 18/19. If you remember, I have been talking about a move into more of a winter storm pattern after the 18th. What is interesting, is that the longer-term modeling not only shows a storm around the 18th/19th, but also December 23rd.
Friday, December 23rd is likely to be the beginning of heavy holiday travel with Christmas on a Monday this year. So, using that type of logic, of course, we will get a big storm then! I used to joke about predicting a storm based on the school athletic travel calendar. All we need for a big storm is a plan to put 30-40 students on a bus with an inexperienced driver and send them over a couple of mountain passes. The storms show up every time.
All kidding aside, we may have a lot to talk about in the last half of December and into January.
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