Very Warm Pattern Soon ..Near Record High Temps

Strong warmth to spread across nation after mid January. The same weather pattern that has produced record breaking snow to Alaska and very cold temperatures in Canada will soon re-energize to create an unusual alignment, and a starkly different pattern than the last couple of Winters. The Pacific ocean will send strong storm after storm into the Pacific northwest from British Columbia, Seattle down to northern California over the next 1 to 2 weeks, creating some of the worst flooding and mudslides there in many years, with 10 to 20 FEET of snow in the mountains there.
Meanwhile the East and especially southern part of the country will begin to turn very warm after the middle of next week. All models show the jetstream pulling out of the area and heading well north into eastern Canada, with a Bermuda Ridge building into the Southeast. This will create a sudden burst of warmth and lead to a false early start to Spring by the latter part of January. The warmth could become nearly record breaking between Dallas Little Rock Memphis to Atlanta, where temperatures my get well into the 70's by late January, and 60s to low 70s are going to be common place all across the Southeast and southern plains, with 80's in central and southern Texas.  There will be periods of rain and thunderstorms in the South.
The bad news is all the warmth and moisture will cause many plants to bud way too early, daffodils, tulips, irises, some azaleas, Bradfords, Cherries and other plants prone to early warmth, and some are already on the verge of opening up, this new long lived warm pattern should fool them into thinking its Spring.  As we know, we're not done with Winter ...it really hasn't arrived and it will be interesting to see how February and early March play out with Winter Weather yet to arrive.