There is little doubt now--Winter is coming back strong

As we roast for a few more days, I am getting very confident of a pattern change that is going to shock alot of people that think winter is over.

By Jan 15, we should be seeing a) Colder air in place or Colder air just on the horizon and with a stormy Pattern in play...there is a very good chance that we could see several snow/ice storms in the 2nd half of January.

In the most extreme, we could get a 2nd half like January 1966 where like this year...was unusualy warm in the 1st half of winter and then had a dramatic turnaround ending in the blizzard of 1966 which was the 3rd storm after the pattern change.

however, next week is looking cold now after the rainstorm of Jan 7-8. We could see 3-4 days of pretty cold air before it briefly warms up before the real pattern change. Its coming folks! Dont be caught off guard

Here is a little blurb about the the 2nd half of January 1966

_This storm occurred over a three-day period from the 29th to 31st of January 1966. It was the third and most intense in a series of storms that hit the Mid Atlantic coast over a ten-day period. The heavy snow combined with temperatures that fell below -10 Celsius and wind gusts in excess of 25 m/s. The snowfall from the cyclone also combined with lake effect snow to leave 150 to 250 cm of snow to the region immediately to the south and east of Lake Ontario. Regions receiving at least ten inches of snow stretched from Virginia up into Maine. The snowfall exceeded the 20 inch mark in central New York, reaching 39.0 inches in Syracuse.

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Posted By Ji to Ji's Weather Journal at 1/05/2007 06:04:00 AM