There’s a tremendous amount of attention on the record warmth of the next two days but as well as this system delivering warmth and heavy rain out ahead and snow and cold behind, it’s also got a very real severe side with tornado threat within the warm sector tonight as dynamics come together.

SPC has upped the risk to moderate.

GFS surface

Texas Blizzard This Weekend?

Then there’s the next system currently pushing onto the West Coast, that drops into the Four Corners and Texas this weekend setting up the threat for a Plains blizzard.

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The below cyclonic vorticity chart off the GFS below shows a very impressive and energetic feature rolling through the Southwest and Texas.

Could see well over a foot with this thing.

See this morning’s video for the discussion. January Outlook will be released tomorrow.

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