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Climatologist: White Christmas comin' up

Mike Patrick Staff Writer | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 5 years, 12 months AGO
by Mike Patrick Staff Writer
| December 20, 2019 12:00 AM

All Cliff wants for Christmas is snow.

Cliff Harris, your friendly neighborhood climatologist, is sticking to his white Christmas forecast like a kid’s tongue on a frozen pole. Yes, even though warming temperatures the next few days promise rain likely to wash away all evidence of Thursday’s 3.1 inch snowfall.

“As we head toward Sunday and Monday, we’ll get some colder air coming in,” Harris said Thursday morning.

On Tuesday night — Christmas Eve, if you’re counting — Harris predicts moisture arriving just ahead of the Big Guy’s sleigh. And he’s pegging the probability of the wet stuff landing as snow rather than rain at 95 percent.

“We should have it on the ground Tuesday night and Christmas morning,” he said, sounding confident.

“That’s providing there’s enough colder air on the backside [of the weather system],” he said, sounding not quite as confident.

“There’s always that 5 percent that we just don’t know about,” he said, chuckling enough to question his confidence level altogether.

Cliff Harris, your prediction is officially carved in ice.

Fulfillment is firmly in the hands of the weather gods.

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