(12-22-10) New Year's Eve Nightmare?

Just wanted to make a quick post about the potential storm heading in over the New Year's Eve weekend. It's way too early to see how this will truly pan out. The models are all over the place at this time, but almost every model run is showing a massive storm...somewhere! The exact placement is to be determined, but someone is going to get hit hard. Look at this graphic:




If this pans out, we'd have temperatures in the 50s ahead of the front with severe thunderstorms somewhere along that frontal boundry! Then it would turn sharply colder into the 20s behind the front and give us a quick inch or two of snow in the wrap-around moisture!

Yuk! Almost gives you a headache just thinking about all of this! The models have been consistent in that a major storm is brewing...it's only a matter of where it seems like. I think someone could get slammed with some strong storms and someone else could get a major blizzard out of this. We'll see how it pans out. I'll post more on this in coming days as we get past this Christmas system and as we get closer to the actual event with better model guidance.