The new year will bring new weather — and even, possibly, snow.
You just might need to be patient.
After multiple warm winter days, the Upstate will see freezing temperatures in early January with a chance of snow and freezing rain.
Between Jan. 7 to Jan. 13, the National Weather Service predicts "much below normal temperatures." During that period, it gave the Upstate a "slight risk" of heavy snow with a 20 to 40 percent probability.
"Judging by pattern recognition, that is definitely a possibility," Patrick Moore, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said about a winter storm.
Moore added that "you need two ingredients to get a winter storm": cold air and a storm system.
"Indications are that we're going have plenty of cold air," he said. "So the next problem is: Will we get a storm system that will come along while we've got the cold air? That's been our problem the last couple of seasons that we haven't had that overlap."
But projecting weeks in advance is a challenge. Moore said they "try not to put too much stock into those depictions. We like to tell people to manage their expectations."
Meanwhile, Chris Justus, a meteorologist at WYFF, wrote on Facebook that he would be "VERY surprised" if we didn't see snow at some point through January.
"We're going to be so cold that if we make it through that pattern, as active as things are going to be, if we make it through without any precipitation, I would be shocked," he said in a video.
After reaching into the upper 50s on New Year's, the temperature will fall during the first weekend of January.
Moore said there's a chance of rain or freezing rain on Jan. 5 and 6, but he doesn't expect the possibility of snow until later in the month.