Old Man Winter Finally Rolling...

Gosh, it’s hard to believe it’s coming up on 9 years ago(2008) when I had rotator cuff surgery.  The reason I remember the year so well is the day before surgery (Dec. 8^th) New Orleans had a snow “storm” that blanketed the city with 1-2”  making for some terrific winter weather scenery.  We have entered the time of the year where snow is sometimes possible, but freezes are more likely.    The well-advertised Arctic Blast is on schedule and will tumble temperatures from near 80+ tomorrow into the 40s in less than 24 hours.   A secondary cold surge arrives late Thursday keeping us in the chill through the weekend.  Freezes are likely on the North Shore and away from Lake P. south for Friday through Sunday mornings.    Get your sweaters and heavy coats ready as you’ll need them for several days.  Hopefully we’ll see some much needed rain with the front late Tuesday and again behind the front late Wednesday into Thursday.   This will be the most nasty weather for us in a long time.   Long term, the cold will likely linger over the eastern states as the upper trough is expected to lock in.  This pattern of an upper ridge over the west and a trough over the east could last through Christmas into January.   Who knows, one of these years everything will line up just right and we’ll have another one of those Sugar Bowl snowstorms like back in 1962, or was it 1963?   I remember watching on TV up in Indiana showing how the snow was piled high up around the field at the old Tulane stadium.  Being so young (14), I had no clue that snow was rare for the deep South.  Being from outside Chicago, I was brought up to believe it was “normal” for it to be cold and snowy in Winter.  That’s why I live south.  19 degrees right now in Denver?   Burrr!   I’m like the “special man”…let ‘em have it!