UPDATED WINTER FORECAST

My favorite weather guy, Joe Bastardi, has his updated winter forcast out.  It is an improvement for us Elkmont folk. The old winter forecast had a big ticket winter, but the worst was farther to the Southeast than the new forecast. Regardless, take the time to prepare your home and car for the upcoming winter.  Hill Spirit plans on hibernating the first of December. No outdoor work for this little Hill Spirit once it gets cold so outdoor Christmas decorations will be up the weekend after Thanksgiving.

 Updated Temperature Forecast

Old Temperature Forecast

New Snow Forecast

Old Snow Forecast

His forecast right now positions the central and eastern U.S. between an extreme cold winter event similar to the great winters of the 1970s (even worse than last year) and a more or less normal event.

There is no change in the idea this is a big ticket winter.  However the two big questions are (1) where will the core of the cold be? and (2) can this go to the type of extremes we saw in the late 1970s?

 source: Weatherbell.com