Our pleasant dry weather is slowly evolving into a period with gray skies and showers. We have two more days before moisture moves on shore late Thursday through the weekend.
It sure has been a crazy December weather pattern with the West Coast dry, dry, dry and the East Coast and Deep South experiencing winter-type weather. Snow in Texas? Yep. Hopefully the weather pattern changes more back to normal. We are heading for one of the driest Decembers on record. And we need the snow in the mountains. They may get 6 or 8 inches Friday through Sunday, but not much beyond at this point.
On this day in 2008 we began our famous cold and snowy period. We were talking here about an extended cold snap. Rain changed to light snow as cold east winds spread across the county. The year with a real white Christmas!
Six years ago in 2011, about this time I was talking about the chill in the air and the brisk east winds in the Gorge, much like the present. Hopes were high back then for some snow as moisture moved inland.
