With a half-foot of snow on the ground this morning, could another storm be just around the corner?

Temperatures will quickly moderate towards freezing today to help with clearing roads, and milder temps through the upcoming week will certainly help dispatch of this snow fall, but by the time the remnants of this storm are gone, another storm could be lurking…if some models are right.

The GFS and some other global models have sporadically shown another storm developing next Friday or Saturday. There isn’t nearly as much agreement between models or between runs as there was at this time last week, when serious talk began about the storm that just passed. But it’s worth keeping an eye on. Right now, the NWS is forecasting chances of snow showers Friday and Saturday, though high temps are shown as reaching 40 degrees.

The Artic Oscillation (AO) is trending further into negative territory and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is forecast to stay slightly negative for the next few days, which bodes well for winter weather chances in the Southeast.

Further out, both the AO and NAO are being modeled by some global models to go positive by the middle of the month. Could some spring-like temps be just around the corner?