Pioneers Yearly Winter Weather Thread

Quality thread #11



As we go into the following week, January 15th, the well-known "January Thaw" will begin to take over and we'll have substantial warming for the last half of January. Winter weather lovers, never fear, there's still plenty of time in February and March.



3 hour precip from 9AM to noon Sunday has that stubborn cold air over northern Arkansas for a light wintry mix. The red line is the 32° line and the blue line is the 35° line. The moisture is running into the back end of the cold, sub-freezing arctic air.



From noon to 3PM, Sunday the subfreezing air is leaving the state and it's mostly a cold rain. Temperatures will struggle to get out of the 30s for much of the northern half of the state.



By the end of next week, the GFS has a wave of low pressure developing along another arctic boundary. Cold air is pouring into the state from the north. This model does NOT show any wintry weather for us, but the Euro does show the potential. Again, I urge caution in dealing with long range models. We have seen how horrible they are this winter.