January 2020 Forecasts and Discussions

[HarrisonSasquatchWx]

And to top it off end of the run LaLa land here comes more.

[John]

Gfs is unreal cold starting Saturday night by Sunday temperatures of -21 Abbotsford???! I have never seen such low temps inside a 180 hours. This is nuts!!

[Storm]

Been celebrating the news that I will be a father in 9-10 months. Monty will have to share some tips.

Congratulations!!!! We have to have a drink for that.

[Mattman]

Been celebrating the news that I will be a father in 9-10 months. Monty will have to share some tips.

Awesome news. That's three of us now on the forum that have become dads--or will be dads--in the last three years. Must be something in the water.

[Hawk]

Gfs is unreal cold starting Saturday night by Sunday temperatures of -21 Abbotsford???! I have never seen such low temps inside a 180 hours. This is nuts!!

Believe it John. U predicted it..although showed up 20 days late

[John]

Believe it John. U predicted it..although showed up 20 days late

I don’t want to believe it that’s to cold

[Typeing3]

Gfs is unreal cold starting Saturday night by Sunday temperatures of -21 Abbotsford???! I have never seen such low temps inside a 180 hours. This is nuts!!

Getting ridiculous seeing that kind of cold move up in timing. Suffice it to say, there's no chance anywhere in the lower mainland will see temperatures drop even nearly that low.

[John]

Assembles anyone?

[John]

Getting ridiculous seeing that kind of cold move up in timing. Suffice it to say, there's no chance anywhere in the lower mainland will see temperatures drop even nearly that low.

I hope you’re right can’t completely ignore though either

[John]

Getting ridiculous seeing that kind of cold move up in timing. Suffice it to say, there's no chance anywhere in the lower mainland will see temperatures drop even nearly that low.

I hope you’re right can’t completely ignore though either

[tyweather]

Assembles anyone?

Ensembles? Cold but a big spread in that timeframe.

Tim

[Rubus_Leucodermis]

Does anyone know what the general situation was in the week or two prior to the cold and snow in January 1950? I'm suspecting that may be what the GFS is picking up on (in other words, 1950 may be a good analogue for conditions in the past week or so).

Before everyone gets too excited, we can't really know all that well what conditions were. There were no satellites then, and a big part of the picture is what things were doing over the Pacific Ocean and the high arctic, and neither of those places is exactly well-covered when it comes to stations.

Bottom line is that while I'm still going to be cautious, and I still doubt it's going to be every bit as cold as the GFS claims, I think that this time there is at least a fighting chance we might see cold on the order of Feb 1989 or Dec 1990.

[John]

Storm what are your thoughts?

[Storm]

Storm what are your thoughts?

This is it. Its happening. -PNA
I should add to that NOT AS COLD AS THE GFS HAS BEEN SPITTING

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[Lisa0527]

Not as cold for the coming weekend on this run