Chicago will have the chance of snow just about every 36 hours for much of next week -- and it all starts this weekend.

But that doesn’t mean another major snowstorm is coming. In fact, it’s just the opposite.

A blocking pattern is setting up in the atmosphere, which will keep a fairly consistent northwest-to-southeast moving jet stream about 20,000 feet up. Picture it like a moving conveyer belt locked in place. Multiple weak storm systems are going to develop and move along this conveyer belt over the next week or so.

These weaker systems are called Alberta Clippers. The name is derived from two elements: fast-moving ships in the 1800s called “Clippers,” and the fact that these areas of low pressure typically form in western Canada. They move fast, and don’t usually carry a lot of m

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