Over on the Reddit page r/Portland, a post titled "Snowpocalypse scheduled for next Wednesday" is getting people excited about the possibility of a snow day. Apparently, the user's weather app suggested that Wednesday of next week, Dec. 7, temperatures in Portland could get down to 34 degrees and we could see snow.

While "Snowpocalypse" seems a little hyperbolic no matter what, we decided to call the National Weather Service to see if, maybe, we could all start planning on skiing to work next Wednesday.

As often happens with experts interested in facts, meteorologist Dave Elson couldn't tell us for sure whether it would or would not snow 10 days from now.

"You get out that far," Elson said, tempering our enthusiasm over the phone, "the computer models really generally aren't all that reliable."

Still, he said, cold weather is coming.

Elson said a system will be coming into to the area late Sunday and Monday and it will bring "the coldest air we've had this season."

Snow? Well, he said, we've got "snow potential."

"We'll probably see some snow levels down into the Coast Range and Cascade foothills, pretty low," Elson said.

But here in Portland, the temperatures are currently forecasted at 45 to 50 degrees through the weekend and then dropping to 40 to 50 degrees on Monday. With rain, probably. Cold rain, but not snow.

Still, stay tuned. We'll know more, like if you should or should not get your inner tube ready for a trip to Mount Tabor, later in the week.

-- Lizzy Acker

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