December 2016- End Of Year Forecast

[snowman65]

This will have to rank in the top 3 most disappointing Christmas weather events in my short 51 years on earth...geeez...lol

[DoctorMu]

70 degree FAIL for the week.

Need a west coast ridge for the new year.

[Ounce]

Merry Christmas to y'all. I hope 2017 is more seasonal than not. I also hope to increase my understanding of what the mets say here from 10% to 11%.

[Katdaddy]

A Merry Muggy Christmas to eveyone and on onward to 2017.

[cperk]

I can handle the 75 degrees,but this humidity is awful.My tile patio is still wet.Have to be careful while smoking my baby back ribs.

[Ptarmigan]

A Merry Muggy Christmas to eveyone and on onward to 2017.

The Ghost of Christmas Past returns. Another warm Christmas like last year.

Christmas is the coldest date for Houston.
http://forums.khou.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2067

[jasons2k]

Merry Christmas to all!

[cperk]

Merry Christmas everyone.

[Stormrider]

Merry Christmas to all my weather buds!
Cperk, you've got the right idea about those ribs!

[djjordan]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. Here's to hoping for some winter weather in January!!!

[Ptarmigan]

Merry Christmas to everyone!

[kayci]

Hey yall! Merry Christmas!!! We are up at the deer lease in Fredericksburg, TX. Weatherman said that we are expecting a hard freeze this evening and for the next few days. I looked on my weatherbug and it says mild 40's to 50's. We are looking to get a better outlook on our forecast. Anyone up this way can help would purely appreciate it!!!!

[TexasBreeze]

I am not there today, but I will be around there this week and forecasts show 50''s the next several days. Cooler by Thursday, but no freeze anytime soon anywhere...

[kayci]

thanx txbreeze!! much appreciated! Need one more deer to tag before season is over.

[srainhoutx]

Spent Christmas Day spreading deer corn at the lease and boy was it breezy and muggy. The pesky Pacific semi zonal pattern continues as yet another upper low settles of the Baja Peninsula in the Eastern Pacific. Expect the warm, muggy and showery pattern to continue most of the week with a shot of Pacific air arriving Thursday bring temperatures closer to normal for a day or two, then the Baja upper low begins to move NE over the New Years Eve/New Years Day Weekend increasing our onshore flow once again along with rain chances to end 2016 and begin 2017.

[cperk]

The O6z GFS shows some wintry weather for us at hour 252 and again at hour 300, lets see if this becomes a trend.

[srainhoutx]

The O6z GFS shows some wintry weather for us at hour 252 and again at hour 300, lets see if this becomes a trend.

The GFS has been rather suggestive for several days that the first week on January could be interesting for the winter weather lover and the various ECMWF/GFS/Canadian longer range scheme do suggest a large bridge of blocking High Pressure Complex develops across the Arctic. We will follow these trends in the January Topic as the week unfold, but caution is advised in a highly volatile Hemispheric Pattern shift. That said a lobe of the Stratospheric Polar Vortex may set up shop near Hudson Bay driving both the Polar and Arctic jet streams into the Lower 48 which can spell trouble in the form of shallow Arctic cold air and the potential of a NW Gulf Coastal/low/trough developing. Not sure I care to see a multiday freezing rain event if the truth be told...

[MontgomeryCoWx]

The O6z GFS shows some wintry weather for us at hour 252 and again at hour 300, lets see if this becomes a trend.

The GFS has been rather suggestive for several days that the first week on January could be interesting for the winter weather lover and the various ECMWF/GFS/Canadian longer range scheme do suggest a large bridge of blocking High Pressure Complex develops across the Arctic. We will follow these trends in the January Topic as the week unfold, but caution is advised in a highly volatile Hemispheric Pattern shift. That said a lobe of the Stratospheric Polar Vortex may set up shop near Hudson Bay driving both the Polar and Arctic jet streams into the Lower 48 which can spell trouble in the form of shallow Arctic cold air and the potential of a NW Gulf Coastal/low/trough developing. Not sure I care to see a multiday freezing rain event if the truth be told...

I'll take any cold weather here even if it means freezing rain.

With that said, I'm leaving our tropical problem city tomorrow and headed to the Great White Big Sky back country for some hiking, hunting and skiing. I'm looking forward to bringing cold air and snow back with me!

[Portastorm]

Yesterday was the warmest Christmas Day in Austin since 1964. We topped out at 80 degrees. This morning we tied a record from last year for warmest minimum temp at Camp Mabry (KATT) at 70 degrees. I'm getting tired of these WARM weather benchmarks.

[Ptarmigan]

Yesterday was the warmest Christmas Day in Austin since 1964. We topped out at 80 degrees. This morning we tied a record from last year for warmest minimum temp at Camp Mabry (KATT) at 70 degrees. I'm getting tired of these WARM weather benchmarks.

Christmas is suppose to be cold.