Christmas update

The Euro model, which was pretty solid going into early this week, has now abandoned the idea of a big storm rolling through Kentucky this weekend.  So now, there are officially no models supporting the idea of a white Christmas for the Bluegrass.  The only frozen precip. we may see will come in the form of a few flurries on Friday night as shown on the latest run of the GFS model:

It wants to kick up a little precipitation diurnally during the evening Friday, and then that dies off after sunset.  But even at that we're looking at a high around 42 degrees so snow flakes will be very hard to come by.

Sigh..  it's tough.  We looked to have a good shot at putting something down this year, but our hopes are fading fast as now the models are all keeping this weekend mostly dry.  Oh well, at least travel will be safer this way, and we have 3 to 4 MONTHS of winter ahead of us.

By the way, as of 12:30 in the morning, just a few hours from now, we are at the winter solstice.  That means that the sun is directly over the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5 degrees south latitude) and tomorrow will be the shortest day of the entire year, in terms of daylight.  Each day from now until June will get longer and longer!  Yay!

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2012.


-Shawn