Major winter storm still appears possible…

I have been out on a limb for several days, and see no reason to come back in now.  In fact, confidence is increasing that a major winter storm will pay a visit to the state beginning late Monday/31st and continuing through most of Tuesday/1st.

This event is still several days away, but close enough that we can start putting down some broad initial guesses where significant events are possible.

Very cold surface air will begin pushing southward through Oklahoma during the afternoon Monday.  A combination of warm air advection just above the surface and strong frontal forcing is likely to result in widespread light precipitation developing during the day.  As temperatures steadily fall below freezing from north to south… this precipitation will change to freezing rain/drizzle and sleet.  Initial amounts on Monday are not likely to be excessive, but could cause issues with travel and possibly power.

Precipitation will increase through the night with freezing rain becoming a problem as we approach Tuesday morning.  Some significant amounts of ice build-up on power lines and trees may start to cause more power issues.  As the cold air deepens, a changeover to sleet is expected and heavy amounts of sleet are likely in a corridor from southwest to northeast Oklahoma.
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Eventually, precipitation over the northwest half of the state will changeover to all snow – and is likely to become heavy as a strong upper storm system ejects northeastward over Oklahoma.  Widespread amounts of four to eight inches with local amounts to near a foot appear possible in some areas.  Strong northeast winds will cause a considerable amount of blowing and drifting which will have major impacts on travel where the heavier snow occurs.

We are still over 100 hours away from the onset of this event and many changes in the forecast are expected over the coming days.  Not only will changes be necessary with regard to timing and location, but amounts of ice and snow as well.  In fact, at this time there are about equal chances of this being a non-event as a significant event.  Confidence is increasing however and it will be interesting to watch trends over the next few days.

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