White Christmas in the south?

Let’s see what Bugs has to say:

Longer version: it really doesn’t look like it, although being still ten days out it is too early for a definitive forecast. Here is the GFS 7pm Christmas Eve wind/precip/temperature panel …

click any image to embiggen; purples are 30’s F or lower.

And here is the precip type data:

Upper right hand box shows type – blue is snow, green is rain, red is ice.

So temps are progged to be too warm (FYI, “progged” is hip meteorologist slang for “prognostication.” A prognostication is allegedly based on data, whereas a prediction for even forecast could just be a Ouija board gut feeling or something). It does look like rain, maybe heavy and even a chance of thundershowers through Christmas Day. ECM (European model) shows a slower moving system and the rain blob over the Midwest on Christmas eve, with any frozen precip far to the north (as in Iowa).

But, again, it’s too early to say very much, other than not much chance of anything in the Frogmore Metroplex (Coastal GA/SC Lowcountry) but rain.

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