Winter Weather Event Friday-Saturday

Friday, December 14 -- 7:45AM

OK....with the event a little closer, the model predictions of snow are getting more consistent. Unfortunately, the total amounts are down for the STL area. The current thinking is 2-4" of snow by the time the system exits the region Saturday evening. The snow should come in 2 waves: an initial wave late Friday night into Saturday morning, and then a second wave Saturday afternoon/evening as we get the backside of the storm.

There certainly is enough cold air up through the "column" to make this all snow, and not some wintry mix. So that's good news.

With that, I will give my prediction.

40% Chance - 2" of snow
20% Chance - 3+" of snow
20% chance - 0-2" of snow
20% Chance - nothing, zilch, zippo

Discussion: I think our odds are good that we get snow out of this. I am just not impressed by this storm. Still, we will probably have a Snow Advisory issued sometime around mid-evening tonight. And honestly, anytime we get some snow before Christmas is always a good sign for things to come.

Hopefully I am wrong about the 2", and we get BLASTED.....Think Snow!

WD