The chatter in the weather community over the past two weeks has been the swing to a much colder weather pattern for most of the northern hemisphere beginning the last couple of days of December into at least the first couple of weeks of January.  In fact, some indications are we could be looking at the coldest open to the new year in 20-30 years. 

It also looks like the active storm track will continue through this period which could increase snow potential across the southern US since there will be so much cold air around.  Precipitation is expected to be above average, but not as wet as December.

Hopefully we will moderate some by the end of the month, but even that looks like a bit of a stretch at this point.  Most indications are for an extended period of colder than normal weather to continue through the month.

JANUARY FORECAST
TEMPERATURE:  COLDER THAN AVERAGE
PRECIP: WETTER THAN AVERAGE