Hurricane Harbor: Weather Event Tomorrow Expected in the South. NW Hogging the Snow! New Year's Day Weather Problems ... Are You Prepared?

This shows weather at 8 PM Wednesday.

You can see the threat abvoe.

Louisiana, Mississippi into N Alabamad.

To the North of the mess is snow...

I like this map with the highways on it.

Severe weather will impact travel tomorrow.

Across a wide area.

There's a dividing line these days.

Is the South in the penalty box?

All the winter weather stays to the North.

Will that change as we flip the year into January?

In truth the storms will set up tomorrow in real time and the mix of the atmopsheric opposities will be the ingredients in a story that has yet to be written. We know there is a chance for severe weather, straight line winds and possible tornadoes somewhere in this highlighted area. Hopefully it will not be bad, but people i this warning area in greens and yellows need to pay attention.

There is a a stuck pattern. A new system pushes in around New Year's Day into the same general area and that system could be stronger than this one and more complex as it devilvers very different weather across a wide area and again high winds could be a problem.

That's something to pay attention to...

..see how models handle it in the short term.

Really not much to add here other than it's late December and we are about to flip the calendar to January and that brings us into the heart of Winter and it seems to be a wacky sort of time where we plan on getting something unexpected!

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The NC State Bowl game was cancelled today within hours of Kick Off, because UCLA was unable to participate due to Covid aka Omicron. It kind of amazes me that they thought they could get a game going but people want what they want. I have kids at the Miami Heat game tonight in Miami, but one by one Pro Teams are having problems as are College Teams. A sense of Deja Vu this December. The issue here is that people took planes, traveled and they were ready to suit up and play but it ended up being cancelled.

In Miami where I was earlier in the month Omicron is raging like an out of control wild fire! If it hasn't shown up in your neighborhood, trust me it's coming and on it's way. I've noticed the desire by everyone to want to ignore it and live in denial as long as they can but it's been like a derailing train and no matter where you are on the train all the cars end up coming undone. Whether you get it and are symton free or filled with way too many aches, pains and an overwhelming tired feeling ... it will show up in your town.

Why am I talking on this now on a weather blog? Because it's an unknown variable that you know will appear but when you aren't sure. Like anything else we don't want to deal with the best way to dea l with it is in advance have a plan of somekind. Vitamin Z and Elderberry Syrup helps many, others prefer tea of Vitamin C. Fluids are good to have because trust me you will not be hungry. Tylenol or Cold medication or ginger ale for your stomach will be desired but once it hits you it's too late to jump in the car and go shopping. What would you need if you were out of commission for let's say 4 to 5 days totally? Just the same way you would prepare for a Snow Storm or a Hurricane, make sure you have the supplies you need that will want to have handy,

One thing I learned when Hurricane Andrew was heading due West intensifying into a Category 5 is just because you want it to turn away won't make it so.

I truly hope that 2022 brings us more smiles across the miles with friends and family vs hunkering down trying to avoid germs. Okay some do not, some do and its like a Category 3 Hurricane is headed straight towards Miami and the news is on literally 24/7 talking Andrew... but you don't want to believe it will hit. Just the way of the world, the way many people deal with danger. Other's over prepare and my hurricane supplies are often unused Winter Storm supplies siting in a box waiting for some storm to come to dinner!

Sooooooooooooo stay safe tomorrow if you live in the hightlighted areas and know you could get more than you bargained for....... and if not........hold onto them because we have only just begun the Winter of 2022. More storms, fronts, threats of Ice or Snow will appear. Eventually some part of the South will get a storm they thought they would not get this winter.

Stay well and if you can't stay well know that this too shall pass and it's not the original Covid but as my older son says "I don't want this one!" :)

2021 has been one heck of a roller coaster ride but more on that. Just the way the South was relieved the death toll was relatively low for Hurricane Ida, and then she surprised us with her intensity in New York and New Jersey on her way to sucker punch New England!

I'll update in real time tomorrow if there is the severe weather we are expecting. But again... the big storm player may be closer to New Year's Day!

Out West there is winter weather. My kids sent me pictures from Seattle. I saw pictures online from Anacortes at a cute bookstore named Pelican Bay Books!