Met office forecast shows the temp change.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/dpxguhhpy#?date=2022-12-25 

Snow lovers will be worried of a break down in a weeks time though. 

FWIW, I acquired a reputation for forecasting snow in the Kentish village where we lived in the 80s, based on snow arriving three weeks after New York had a big fall. Then in the 90s, that forecast method just stopped working, and I quietly tried to forget about it. There's little sign of it being successful this year either so presumably I struck lucky for those few years.

I do remember as a youngster back in the 70s and 80s this was often stated and it did turn out to be the case on occasions - both hot spells and cold spells. I'm sure weather patterns have changed since then because this very rarely seems to happen any more along with steady west-east moving anticyclones giving 3 fine days followed by a cold front and rain.  

And here is the weather warning. I think they might be enjoying a snowy Christmas 😉 ....

Blizzard conditions expected. Total snow accumulations of

2 to 3 feet with locally higher amounts possible. Winds gusting

as high as 65 to 70 mph today and tonight. A rapid switch from

rain to snow with sharply falling temperatures into the teens

and single digits will result in a flash freeze today. Blizzard

conditions will develop this afternoon lasting into Saturday

night. Wind chills as cold as 10 to 20 below zero.

Could be interesting to watch: https://buffalowebcam.com 

Dropped to 1c now there so rain turning to snow. 

i'm watching this one, snow falling but not settling (yet)

Absolutely fascinating seeing how quickly the scenes there are turning white. Proper blizzard conditions now.

Thanks for the link!

Check it out now. 

I've kept it open in a tab, popping in every so often yo make my heart break a little bit more 😢

https://youtu.be/eVwn3bbSXBw  

edit. Winds currently gusting up to  around 40 knots there now, so no doubt serious wind chills are being felt all around 

It looks amazing just now with heavy snow.

Temps  -9c in Town or  -12c away from the lake so must feel so so bitter. 

That what I like to see those subzero temps here and blizzards conditions from the east or north.  Since my memory of very few snow events here after 1991 really miss out most of my life time as my memories alwasy fresh from the 1980;s to 1991, then Feb 2009 that all, rest was poor and little snow around and less cold temps.  I and my wife plan to go abroad up to 1 week per winter to see the snow, we going to try Lapland and rent a holiday apartment for a week which cost £61 per night than hotels which charging a lot more.  At least to see the snow and fill up my memory of snow yearly.  Americans, Canadian and Europeans have more snow memories from seeing snow every year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/4335045 

New Orleans is below sea level on the Gulf Coast at 29.9511° N, 90.0715° W

😲

Sea ice in the Gulf of Mexico would be something to see! Perhaps we'll see icebergs floating our way in the Gulf Stream🤣

But more seriously, a weather expert on BBC pm was saying that the cold air layer was rather shallow. The interview rather broke down because the BBC interviewer turned out to be trying to find out whether it would be too cold for planes to fly at 30,000 feet and the interviewee was talking about something much shallower, 5,000 feet if I heard it right. Did I? Does anyone have a source for temperature profiles with altitiude?

Would so love that in the UK

Hilarious chaos. 

#Buffalo on Twitter and you will see this is a unusual event even for there, crazy scenes. 

Incredible weather! Last week and week before was our fun time and this week is USA's fun time!

On the flip side NYC didn't see any snow - apparently started off very wet this morning at +13c with rain and dropped to -5 this evening and a further fall to -13c tonight but the rain stopped just before it got cold enough for snow and from now on it will be bone dry but bitterly cold. NYC has had a temperature drop of almost 20c in what 15 hrs. wow wow wow! 😮

Thanks for sharing - I scrolled back time and went to earlier in the day - amazing eventful day weatherwise there! and this is the sort of weather I miss which i use to experience in Alberta when I lived there 1 year. I love how it started off as rain and then stopped, got brighter and then clouded over with wet snow huge wet flakes and then became more and more powdery as temperatures plummeted below freezing and then drifted leaving a dusting!

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/topic/eye-on-the-storm/ 

It's still 5 days of  extreme cold weather with severe blizzards over Christmas, I would take that every year without disappointment.  If you want constant snow and cold temps you have to go further North.  Quebec city has a fantastic climate and warm incursions are much more limited with deep snow on the ground all winter.  Go SW to Montreal and it's a bit more dodgy and then Toronto even more so.

Quebec and Newfoundland have the best N America winter weather IMO but I would also take Buffalo and sacrifice some melt for the extreme lake effect snow.