Friday 1/9

No change yet, don't worry I'm working hard to make it snow. Starting Sunday everyone will be in the 50's. Inversions at night with lows in the 20's in the valleys and not hitting freezing above 7000 ft. Changes in the pattern still no track for the week of the 18th but that doesn't mean a big storm yet. We need to get a trough and that is hard to do when there is a trough on the Eastern side of the country.

Eastern half of the country could have the biggest cold outbreak next week since 1997 with snow really far south. For the presidential innauguration there could be snow on the ground and lows near 0 that morning in D.C. Up in Alaska they are having one of the biggest cold outbreaks in history with temps hitting -60 in places for more than a week. All this cold loves land and it's heavy so it sinksdown across the country causing a huge trough. We need the ridge over the West Coast to back up so some of that air can come to us. That is hard to do with blocking off the East coast holding the cold there. Will have to wait and watch. Ironically our warmth and lack of snow is due to extreme cold in other areas of the globe and cold oceans.

I will get into a nice long range discussiong tomorrow in detail. BA