Our weather group, “Israeli Winter Weather” is a small group of persons somewhat obsessed with making it snow (myself, Yaakov Cantor, and Jonathan Hoffman). Our strong belief is that if we speak about it often enough it will happen, or so we wish. At times, certain members of our group have sworn off discussing any possible snow in the old country – due to the “Fear of Missing Out,” but this week has seen some crazy weather and forecasts for cities along the east coast of the United States, and it still isn’t clear what will be.

We have access to multiple global forecast models and their ensembles from many sites, eg., tropical tidbits, and forecasts have varied from about 20 inches of snow for NYC to just an inch of snow. Such is the difficulty of forecasting, when certain weather streams must interact over the eastern United States to produce rapidly intensifying east coast storms.

Yet, we’d rather not live our weather vicariously, but would prefer an old-fashioned snow storm right here in even older Jerusalem. We wonder, could we get there?

After a warm up on Thursday, a southern stream storm will then hook up with a colder northern stream storm as the southern storm moves eastward across the Mediterranean. This should bring showers and periods of rain from Friday into Sunday.

Another warm up is expected early next week, which will gradually amplify towards the end of this upcoming week. It is then that a very cold, northern stream storm is........

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