More Snow and Ice Looking Likely Next Week

The Warm Winter Outlooks issued in October and November are going to fail miserably, including mine. Almost all professional forecasters went with a typical La Nina outlook, which is warm and dry for the South and East, yet we're anything but. Just one more snow and ice event across the Deep South will probably throw this Winter into record territory both in terms of actual snow amounts and also the Cold Air. Already, since December 1st, many cities have reached a top 5 Category on the cold wave, and there's no end in sight.The rest of the month looks very cold, perhaps extreme cold, with hardly a day at normal temperatures anywhere in the Southeast.
Next up, another Texas storm is forecast to approach the Southeast by later Monday and overspread light snow and sleet across the Deep South and Tennessee Valley. Its way too early to think about amounts now, but I'll continue to update as time gets closer. There's still many unknowns, as usual, with the details, but it does look pretty likely for some more accumulating snow and ice from near Dallas to Memphis Birmingham Atlanta Nashville and much of the Carolinas region. Some areas further south will transition to ice and maybe cold rain, while areas sandwhiched between I-20 and closer to I-40 and maybe east of I-85 will be in all 3 types of precip at some point, but we'll nail down specifics later.  This is just an early alert...don't buy bread or milk yet!