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For the past couple days I’ve been very good not to hype next week’s pattern. Now comes the time to begin evaluating the possibilities for frozen fun.

A couple of things to note:

1 – Overnight Saturday into early Sunday morning will bring the chance for wind gusts from 35-50 mph. Given the excessive rain we’ve had, the soil is loose, so the possibility for downed trees and power lines needs to be considered.

2 – At a week out (targeting the middle of next week), there is still a lot of run-to-run variability as to the track of a southern storm in all global models. What we can say is that all the models show the storm and the signal in the ensembles continues to amp up. The track will decide the precip-type, and until the model’s converge on a solution for that, we’re just hand-waving and conjecturing.

Key point for now is that a winter storm for the NC and VA appears likely. We’ll know more about who gets 35° rain vs. ice vs. snow early next week. Let the snow dance begin!