Don't look now, folks, but some of the medium/long-range models are showing an active, potentially snowy pattern with numerous winter storms taking tracks to possibly impact our area over the next 10-15 days (and maybe beyond that), starting with a possible mixed precip event on 2/5-2/6 and then another event that could be more significant next weekend and then maybe a couple more the week after that. This does not look to be a particularly cold pattern (more like alternating shots of cold and warm, but not very cold/warm), but it does look to be a possibly stormy pattern, which in February means possibly snow, mix, rain, everything - this is the kind of pattern where we might see a couple of those front end snow thump to mix to rain scenarios.
I'm sure a couple of 15-day GFS maps from today are going to start circulating on social media shortly (shows 1-2 feet of snow over this period for the entire region, with the higher amounts favored NW of 95, due to less likelihood of warm air/mixing/rain). The Euro and CMC are not showing anywhere near that much snow, but they are showing a couple of wintry events, each, and all of the ensemble means are showing potential for snow during this period, so it's a period to watch - especially next weekend into the following week.
The 2/5-2/6 event (kind of 2 events, really, but close in time) looks more likely to be rain with some mix possible for the 95 corridor and SE of there, but several models are showing a few inches of snow N of 78/NW of 287 and especially N of 80/NW of 287, which means the snow for the 95 corridor isn't out of the question, as is shown on the GFS. Still not thread worthy, IMO, but could be in a day or two.
