I hope you had a good Thanksgiving. My brother put on a spread for a small group of us that had a turkey and all the usual fixings. It was delicious, as always.
The topping to a nice day was watching Justin Tucker rack up 19 points for my fantasy football team. With 12 points from Mathew Stafford and 12 more from Reggie Bush that makes it a 43 point lead for me going into this weekend. I can't get too cocky because my opponent only had the Steelers Defense/Special teams going yesterday, so he has 7 more players(including Adrian Peterson) yet to go this week to my 5. Nonetheless, it's a very good start.
Before last week's win I had lost three in a row, so the best I can do is the #3 seed in the playoffs. My opponent this week gets that seed if he beats me and I would slip to #4. I'm still very happy to be 8-4 at this stage and in the upper bracket of the playoffs. It has been a good FFL year no matter what happens after this point.
Around here you can kind of get a feeling for how harsh the winter is going to be by how the jetstream acts in November. When it stays north of Minnesota and bottles up all of that cold Arctic air there's a good shot at having a milder or at least shorter winter. When it doesn't though, it's often like a dam breaking and we can count on wave after wave of Arctic air masses coming down from Canada. We've already had a couple of cold blasts this month, so I'm not at all surprised to read this:
Light snow streaks in Monday & Tuesday, but the main event comes Wednesday into Friday as a series of sloppy southern storms track across the Plains. Wednesday into Thursday temperatures may be just warm enough aloft for a wintry mix in the Twin Cities (mostly snow north and west). A second storm pushing northeast may drop all snow by Friday into early Saturday, with cold air firmly in place. It's still too early for any more details, other than to say that snow lovers may finally get their wish the latter half of next week.
Here's a gasp-worthy number: the ECMWF (European) model prints out a low of -17F in the metro a week from tomorrow. Remember, the coldest jabs of winter are usually preceded by significant snows.
Numbing cold lingers into the second week of December with a temperature rebound by mid-month.
That's just one model, but any way you look at it it's going to get cold. All of that will certainly slide east of here, though I don't know how far south it will get. The real deal arrives next week. We've been warned.
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