With Christmas looming in everyone's minds the forecast for the holiday can often be a make-or-break scenario depending on activities and travel. After a few days of consistent snowfall, we'll see temperatures drop through the early part of the weekend but those will quickly increase as we approach the early week and the days leading up to Christmas.
Through the weekend temperatures will continue to hover around the teens overnight but by Sunday an upper-level disturbance from our north will slide south shifting winds southerly and thus helping temperatures begin to slowly increase as we approach Monday. With multiple systems sliding through the early week moisture will be present which will allow for a few instances of both freezing rain and snow which will ultimately impact our most recent snowfall.
As of now, the Climate Prediction Center is now expecting less than a 50% chance that we'll be experiencing a White Christmas this year due to both rain chances and increasing temperatures leading up to Christmas. This is pretty unfortunate as consistent snowfall this week seems to be all for not as any snow on the ground is expected to melt during the beginning part of the week.
On Christmas day, another one of the previously mentioned upper-level disturbances will bring strong southerly low-level flow increasing both our temperatures and moisture content. With those parameters increasing, forcing for the moisture will also be present which may be enough to force rain showers across the state line on Wednesday as well as temperatures well into the upper 30's.
This warming trend will begin Sunday as we won't quite get above freezing but with above freezing temperatures and rain chances the next few days, that's when we'll see most of the snowfall starting to melt. By Wednesday though we'll be back up into the upper 30's as Christmas gets going. Even after that then fall like temperatures will actually return as temperatures look to shoot up into the 40's through the later parts of the week!
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