Its going to get nasty here Thursday nite into Fri-morning what flash freeze looking very likely. NOAA: Frontal passage in the evening then opens the door for rapid cooling with 850mb temps dropping from 6C at 00Z, -2C at 06Z and -11C by 12Z. Residual water on roads may rapidly freeze as air temps quickly drop into the mid to upper 20s after dark. Additionally, the strong cold westerly winds will excite lake effect with bands of snow working east across lower MI. Still no real strong signal with low level convergence which would suggest higher confidence for any corridor to overachieve with lake effect bands setting up. Still, strong winds and snow overnight Thursday into Friday morning will offer a chance for brief snow squalls. Currently only thinking around a half inch of snow is most likely as mixing depths are topping out around 5kft. Though this does pass through the DGZ, it`s a bit shallower than we`d like to see for higher end lake effect.

Given how things are looking for the next several days, it's gonna take a pretty chilly Christmas Eve through NYE to save December 1950's record. Today should go down as another very torchy day, thanks to a rather misleading midnight high of 59. Had the cold front been a couple hours faster, it wouldn't have been... but it is what it is.

It was a balmy 44F today. Holy crap..felt soooo good being outside. Some snowmelt as well, but not too much.

Always nice to see Bliz Warnings hoisted.

Looks like the coldest since 1980 was 2010, followed by 2012. If current forecasts hold, this month will easily blow by both of those, and probably 1966 and 1954 as well. So at least for Fairbanks, this December appears likely to be the coldest in at least 45 years. For Juneau, 1983, 1977, 1964, 1955, and 1948 are the top 5 in the airport era...and the way things are going, none necessarily look out of reach. I don't know where to find the data for Whitehorse, but I'm sure they're in the running for a top spot as well.