Extreme Possibilities Looming Ahead For the Southeast and East Coast

I'm pretty sure we'll end up telling our grandkids about this nutty weather pattern one day. After a brief break following our Christmas snowstorm, we're quickly casting our eyes to the upper level maps again. And they are shouting history making once again. For a few days now, the Ensembles, the operational models, the analogs, every conceivable piece of data the weatherman can look it is showing an unprecendentend pattern taking shape for Tennessee, the Carolinas, northern Georgia, Alabama all the way to Arkansas.

We just passed a record setting cold and snowy December in part of the Southeast, with strong record setting blocking showing up in Canada and Greenland. Now the blocking is shifting to Alaska, and will work in tandem with residual blocking in Canada, and its arriving at the coldest time of Winter anyway, so with Dual blocking signatures showing up, and the indicies both NAO and AO in record low territory, this is going to get interesting. Even with one strong block, the Carolinas usually do well with Winter storms, as they are infrequent apparitions, but to have 2 of them, simultaneously and in record strong strength, with this pattern the sky is the limit, literally. I'm not sure what will evolve, but the models are already painting another snowstorm cutting across part of the Deep South starting Sunday, January 9th.  This could be followed by the coldest air yet. A very cold and strong series of Arctic highs is poised to drop down and cover the nation, with more undercutting jetstream energy coming at us in a very displaced fashion. We're embarking in rare, unprecendented territory here. Stay tuned!