monsoonmartin

First of all, there's no sugarcoating it: my call for the December 9th storm was a spectacular fail.  In case you missed the forecast, I called for a coating to an inch around here, and in case you were out of town, we got 4-6 inches generally in the Reading area.  I could explain why I was wrong, and why we got more snow than I expected, but you don't want to hear that.  So here's my promise:

I, Monsoon Martin, will use every foible and stumble as a learning experience in furtherance of becoming the very best amateur forecaster since the invention of the SuperDoppler.

And so, we move forward.

No reason. Why?Overnight Monday into Tuesday, we'll see some light snow showers as a Clipper system skirts by to the north, but nothing major.  (For reals.)  I don't expect any accumulation or travel/school impacts from this system.  High on Tuesday is 42; low is 22 with increased winds.

Wednesday will bring the coldest air of the season.  It will be weather that thoroughly earns the label applied to it by many who walk in and through it: cold as balls.  Mostly sunny, but the high will only be 28 - and add in 20-30mph winds with gusts over 40mph, and it will feel like 14 degrees.  (At night, the low will dip to 18 - with a wind chill of 2.  TWO!!)

On Thursday, another Clipper comes through, and I think we're just looking at some snow showers (Thursday afternoon) with little or no accumulation and no travel impacts.

Another thing on Friday afternoon, but again, that just looks like snow showers at this point.  Highs on Thursday and Friday will be around freezing (32); lows around 20.

This weekend - Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th - looks drier and less frigid.  Those who enjoy venturing outside will find their environs much more hospitable.  Highs near 40, lows in the upper 20s, plenty of sunshine.

Cloudy and fairly mild on Monday ahead of a system that will bring us a few (rain) showers on Tuesday.  Highs both days in the mid 40s.

Wednesday 12/20 looks a little chillier with plenty of sunshine - high of 40, low in the mid 20s.

Thursday 12/21 (the solstice for you heathens - the day with the shortest period of daylight and the longest period of night ... no light) will bring some rain showers (and maybe a snow shower or two later on).  High in the upper 30s.

Friday 12/22 will be rainy, chilly, and gross with a high in the mid 40s.

Next weekend - Saturday the 23rd and Sunday the 24th - will be overcast and cold (highs in the upper 30s) with a chance of accumulating snow on the 24th.  This is good news for anyone hoping for a white Christmas (racist) but less auspicious news for those traveling on the 24th.

Monday the 25th - celebrated by Christians as "Christmas," marking the day when Kris Kringle and his elf assistant Buddy rolled an ice rock aside, emerged from a hobbit hole, Kringle saw his shadow, and heralded in six more weeks of winter - will be mostly sunny and chilly with a high of 35 and low in the teens.

And finally, Tuesday the 26th - celebrated by the British and their friends as Boxing Day, commemorating the day on which the landed gentry would engage in spirited fistfights over the leftover Christmas ham.  At least it was celebrated as such, with a delightful jigsaw and bread pudding, until a certain British expatriate up and decided to go to Cape May without so much as consulting anyone - will be overcast and cold with temperatures hovering around freezing.

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