Perhaps An Interesting Week Of Weather

A busy week weather-wise for Christmas week.

First for tonight, there is a total lunar eclipse that begins at 12:33am, and will continue until 4:01am, with totality occurring between 1:41am and 2:53am (all times Central Time). Unfortunately, much of the even may be at least partially obscured by clouds, though clouds should thin out or break at times enough so that we will be able to see at least a portion of the event. Lows will drop to near 20 with light winds.

Then winter begins tomorrow at 5:38pm CT, and will be greet by lots of clouds and perhaps a few flurries, especially over the Sandhills and Panhandle with highs in the 20’s north to 30’s south.

Tomorrow night and Wednesday should be partly to mostly cloudy with lows falling into the teens, and highs Wednesday in the 20’s north to near freezing south.

But the most interesting part of the forecast will come late Wednesday night into Friday morning. A storm system will begin to take shape near the Four Corners Wednesday night, then move east-southeastward to our south Thursday into Friday. This storm has the potential to produce some accumulating snow over Greater Nebraska, which if it occurs would provide us with a white Christmas. However, there are many questions concerning the evolution of this storm. For example, the storm may not fully develop until it’s too our east, or it may move too far to our south to give us much in the way of snowfall. Right now, it does appear that we will receive at least some snow, but how much is still in question. But if everything were to fall into place, we could see several inches of snow in some areas, which could be a problem for some travelers who expect to get an early start on Thursday. Highs Thursday and Friday should remain in the 20’s, with perhaps some low 30’s by Christmas day with more in the way of sunshine.

Another disturbance may cause some snow showers Sunday and Monday with highs in the 20’s and 30’s.

So stay tuned to News 2 for the latest on what may turn out to be quite an active week of weather for the holiday.

Mike