Much of nation colored various shades of red in days before Christmas as widespread warmer than normal temperatures are expected. Most of the next couple of weeks will probably see 50s highs, 60s at times, with some cloudy days staying in the 40s. Meanwhile, winter’s coldest air remains deep and widespread on the other side of the North Pole, in Europe and Asia. You may have seen some news about the large snowstorm in Germany paralyzing Munich’s airport.Ī mild pattern does not necessarily mean a lot of highs in the 70s, or that there won’t be any cold fronts that bring a day or two of breezy chill. It probably won’t snow again beyond maybe some mountain flurries between now and at least Christmas.Ī strong upper-level flow of air from the Pacific appears poised to flood much of North America with mild air over the next couple of weeks at least. Courtesy of Carol Sowder.īut while the plopping white flakes in the lights and a little white on the ground (or, at least, the sight of ivory ridgetops on your horizon) may have seemed like a novelty after the last snow-challenged winter, and maybe even a sign that snow is about to become much more frequent in this one, let’s put some brakes to that thought, for the moment. Nearby Copper Hill reported 2 inches of snow. She said it was more than fell all of last winter at her location. Somewhere between 1 and 2 inches on the snow-stick ruler of Carol Sowder in Floyd County. But in the eastern parts of our region, even in some parts of Southside, cold air caught the back of a heavier rain shield for just long enough to turn grass and exposed objects white at some much lower elevations.įor some locations, as much or more snow collected in one night 10 days into December as accumulated in total for every day through the end of March last winter. From about Lynchburg to Martinsville and westward, it was mostly higher elevations that turned white, with lower elevations only getting some ice pellets or sloppy wet flakes briefly at the end of an all-day rain, if that. The pattern of snowfall from the first sort of fairly widespread episode of flakiness in Cardinal News’ coverage area of Southwest and Southside Virginia this season late Sunday and early Monday is difficult to describe, geographically. Virginia mountains were snow-capped like Western scenes on Monday morning, but some lower, flatter areas got dusted also. Want to be the first to see weather news? Sign up for our weekly email weather newsletter, featuring weather journalist Kevin Myatt.
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