One to Two Feet of Snow from Texas to Maine

A Storm That Will Provide It All: Blizzard Conditions, Crippling Ice & Severe Storms

WOW, what a storm system that will be rocking and rolling Tuesday and Wednesday. I don’t know if I can remember a storm like this one with the projection of a foot to two feet of snow from Texas to New England with a large area of significant icing, too.

This storm just about will have it all, blizzard conditions, crippling ice accumulations and severe thunderstorms with strong straight line winds and a few tornadoes.Since I have readers from not only here in the Tennessee Valley but additionally from around the nation, let me go ahead and break this forecast down in parts. First I will address the snow threat then the icing threat and finally the severe weather threat. So here we go, whew!As I write this blog post around 4pm CT, the surface low that will cause all of this weather was organizing to the southwest of Abilene, Texas.

The forecast in the track of this low has been continually shifting a bit further to the east and south with each new run cycle. This has caused the axis of the band of heaviest snow, 18” to 24”, to shift east and south, as well. This also has shifted the main focus of significant icing in the same manor. This is a double-edged sword we are

dealing with as there will be a very fine line, just 20 to 30 miles, between significant icing and the edge of the heaviest snows. As a result, just minor swings in the track of the low will provide major differences in the overall outcome and all accumulation forecasts, at this point, should be just looked at as the storm’s potential. For, example, using the St. Louis Metro area, it appears the dividing line may be nearly on top of the region with significant ice to the south and southeast of the city with heavy snow just to the west and northwest. If the low tracks further south and east than current forecast thinking, the entire St. Louis metro area could see 1 to 2 feet of snow. If the low tracks further north and/or west than current thinking, the St. Louis area will again be back into the heart of the hefty icing zone, 1” to 2”.

This will simply be an event that will have to be monitored on a hour-by-hour basis. As of this writing, it appears the axis of the heaviest snow will be about a 40 mile wide band with the center running from Wichita Falls, TX-Tulsa, OK-Joplin, MO-Rolla,MO-Jacksonville, IL-Bloomington, IL-Southbend, IN-Detroit, MI-Dunkirk, NY-Albany, NY-Portland, ME. What an area of snow of a foot plus!

Because this will likely have to be continually tweaked, I will be posting updates and hosting live chat sessions to discuss my latest thoughts on my Facebook page. Please “Like” the page and follow along and join in with the conversations. That is where I will be posting my updated images of forecast material, too! I will have a scheduled live chat to discuss this storm at 10:30 pm, Monday.

Regarding significant icing (freezing rain of 0.5” or more), it appears the worst will occur in two separate bands. The first is now ongoing in the St. Louis metro area where 0.5” to 0.75” of ice is likely to fall from St. Louis County east between the I-70 and I-64 corridor. A second band with 0.5” to 1.5” of ice will fall from Fayetteville, AR-Cape Girardeau, MO-Bloomington, IN-Akron, OH-Hagerstown, MD-Newark, NJ.
How about severe weather now? Temperatures this afternoon in advance of the low have spiked into the upper 70s to near 80 degrees in Texas and a few severe storms are possible as a result. The better chance for severe weather will arrive on Tuesday across Louisiana-Mississippi and southern Alabama. The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued a “Slight” Risk to cover this potential.

At this time, I anticipate most of the severe weather will be related to dangerous straight-line winds; however, a few tornadoes will be possible along the I-10 corridor.

The Tennessee Valley will generally be in between all of the major action with the ice and snow well to our north and the severe weather staying off to our west and south. That doesn’t mean it won’t be becoming wet, though. It appears we have a good chance for seeing 1” or more of rainfall Tuesday afternoon into early Wednesday morning.

The cold front will finally slide through the Valley during the evening hours and temperatures will begin to take the plunge and Wednesday will be cold with temperatures remaining in the 30s.

OK, done with storm number 1. That is right, that means there is a second storm! As the first storm pulls away a piece of upper level energy will be left behind over the Four Corners and this will wait a few days before ejecting out to the east late week. But before it does, it will work in tandem with the arctic high building southward into Texas and snow, 2” to 4” is likely to fall as far south as El Paso, Texas, with the areas mountains picking up more than 1 foot of snow. The upper level piece of energy will aid in spinning up a surface low well in its advance over the Gulf of Mexico, yet again. Boy have we seen a bunch of these this year!. This will begin to occur on Thursday and the result will be for more Gulf moisture being sent northward. Significant rains will be likely along the Gulf Coast but the BIG question will be where exactly will this low track and how much cold, arctic air will be in place across the southern U.S. It is possible, some snow could fall along the north-northwest edge of this area of precipitation from the Houston Metro area into the Tennessee Valley on Friday. This will be something to monitor over the next couple of days. As of now, for those in the Tennessee Valley, I am leaning with the thought that we could see a wintry mix try to set up Friday and try to go over to rain before possibly ending as some snow on Saturday.

If this is not enough weather to get you excited about, then just wait, more is likely on the way for next week. The long range models are all hinting at yet another strong arctic high settling south through the Plains, early next week, as it does another repeat performance of another center of the nation winter storm could be in the making. I talk more about that in the coming days.

Tennessee Valley Day-to-Day Forecast

Tuesday
Cloudy with a few isolated showers possible (20%) until late afternoon then rain becomes likely (100%). A Line of strong to severe storms possible in the evening (6 to 9 pm). Windy.
Low: 53 High: 60 (Wind SE-SW 15-25)

Wednesday
Early morning rain/storms (60%) then decreasing clouds and turning much colder and windy.
Low: 30 High: 38 (Wind: NW 10-20)

Thursday
Sunny start with clouds increasing in the afternoon and evening.
Low: 22 High: 39

Friday
Cloudy with sleet/freezing rain or rain possible (60%) (GFS and Canadian about 0 at 850 all thru event and looks more like a sleet event if right but a big IF. GFS mos much warmer than operational model would suggest)
Low: 28 High: 38

Saturday
Cloudy with a chance snow showers (40%)
Low: 30 High: 40

Sunday
Partly Cloudy
Low: 26 High: 50

Monday
Rain Likely (60%)
Low: 36 High: 56

Tuesday
Rain Ending, Windy and Colder
Low: 33 High: 40

Wednesday
Partly Cloudy and Cold
Low: 18 High: 35

Thanks for reading,

“Doppler” Dale

Crippling Winter Storm To Hit Mid-West With Snow, Ice & Wind

While The Southern U.S. May See Severe Storms

The next round of arctic cold to enter the U.S. has begun and this punch could be the coldest of the season, yet! The edge of the arctic air or the cold front leading the way was just entering into northwest Alabama, Sunday afternoon; however the cold air was still lagging quite a bit behind with temperatures still in the 50s as far north as Cape Girardeau in the Missouri Bootheel. The subfreezing temperatures, though, were just 90 miles further to the northwest in central Missouri. This front is going to play a HUGE role in the weather for the next several days for much of the eastern ½ of the nation.

The arctic front will become nearly stationary across the Tennessee Valley tonight into early Monday before it slowly begins lifting back to the north as a warm front; however, it won’t go too far, only into central Tennessee. As a result of the front being in the vicinity and additional upward forcing from an upper level piece of energy that will be slipping by, the Valley will see an increase chance for rain showers overnight and into the first half of Monday. This will help provide a very small range in temperatures for the next 24 hour period, basically remaining in the 50s.

For Monday, i you are planning travel to the north or northwest be advised the weather will be quite changeable with rain, ice and snow.. The I-70 corridor in Missouri and the I-64 corridor in Illinois will be the closer delineator between above and below freezing temperatures at the surface. The fly in the ointment will be the temperatures up to 5000 feet above the surface and it appears the freezing line at 5000’ will actually push yet a bit further north into Missouri and Illinois. This is setting up a likely significant icing event for much of Missouri and Illinois with the St. Louis Metropolitan area being right on the edge. Further north and west significant snowfall will be falling and this will include Denver, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri and Des Moines, Iowa.

Early Tuesday, a powerful winter storm will be spinning up across eastern Texas and it will ride northeast along the arctic front and be near the Memphis metro area by Tuesday evening. The storm will be moisture rich and with heavy arctic air in place a “Major” ice storm is likely for much of the Red River Valley through the Ozarks and into Mid-Mississippi River Valley and the Ohio River Valley with heavy snow further north and west. At this point it looks like the the icing will occur through north-central Texas into eastern Oklahoma and along the I-44 corridor in Missouri and along and just north of the I-70 corridor in Illinois, Indiana and eastern Ohio. The heaviest and very dangerous icing will occur from the St. Louis east to Indianapolis where a band of an inch plus of icing (freezing rain) is expected. Due to the arriving cold air, it is likely the icing further west-southwest through the Ozarks and into north-central Texas will be in the form of a combination of freezing rain and sleet with freezing rain accumulations generally a ½ of an inch of less but sleet accumulations of 1” to 3” possible.

Liquid Equivalent Precipitation Totals

The Tennessee Valley, on Tuesday, will be well into the warm sector of this storm and so we will again see mild conditions but it will turn wet by later in the day and possibly even stormy. It appears, as of now, that rain will be developing by late afternoon/early evening with the powerful cold front swinging through around midnight. With the arrival of the cold front, there will likely be a line of strong and possibly severe thunderstorms. The storm prediction center currently has a hatched area of “Slight Risk” for Tuesday into early Wednesday. The amount of warming that occurs in advance of the warm front will become a major factor on the amount of instability the Valley sees and that leads to the risk factor for severe weather. The first hints of severe weather in the South and Southeast are commonly found during February and so this is not uncommon. Now is the time to be getting those severe weather safety plans in place. Make sure you know where you are going in the event of severe weather whether you are at home, office/non-living area or vehicle. Make sure to have a warning notification system so you are alerted to any rapidly changing situations and warnings. This would include NOAA Weather Radio or even better, Weather Call.

By Wednesday, the storm system begins lifting into and out of the Ohio Valley. The Tennessee Valley will see sky conditions clearing but it will be turning windy and colder with temperatures remaining in the 30s. The storm will still be providing a pounding of winter’s furry to much of the Great Lakes with heavy snow expected in Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit. In fact, a blizzard watch is already in affect for northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana.



Even though this BIG storm ejects out a piece of energy is left behind in the Southwest. This will lead to yet another Gulf Coast low for late Thursday and into Saturday. At this point, I followed the ECMWF as a compromise between all three of the long range models, CMC, GFS and ECMWF. Track uncertainty and lingering affects of the arctic air provide for low confidence beyond midweek.

Tennessee Valley Day-By-Day Forecast

Monday
Cloudy with Rain Showers (70%)
Low: 53 High: 60 Wind: SSW 5-10

Tuesday
Cloudy with rain likely by late afternoon (90%), severe thunderstorms possible in the evening to late evening.
Low: 50 High: 60

Wednesday
Early morning rain/storms (70%) then decreasing clouds and turning much colder and windy.
Low: 30 High: 38

Thursday
Sunny start with clouds increasing in the afternoon and evening.
Low: 22 High: 39

Friday
cloudy with rain becoming likely (60%). Rain may begin as a period of wintry mix.
Low: 24 High: 42

Saturday
Cloudy with a chance for rain showers or flurries (30%)
Low: 33 High: 42

Sunday
Partly Cloudy
Low: 28 High: 50

Monday
Variably Cloudy
Low: 32 High: 56

Tuesday
Rain Likely
Low: 43 High: 54

Thanks for reading,

"Doppler" Dale

Enjoy This Weekend's Sixties!

Return of Winter Expected Next Week

Still looking nice to start off the weekend with abundant sunshine and mild temperatures into the low 60s! Modeling data is faster with the ejection of the next storm system out of the southwest with it now beginning to arrive during the second half of Sunday. As a result, Sunday will likely not be as sunny as initially thought but still generally nice. Rain chances may also need to be increased for Sunday but with confidence still low on the exact arrival of the return of moisture to the Valley opted to leave the current

forecast of 20% alone. It may be one of those late afternoon and evenings where those west of I-65 may begin seeing rain showers while they hold off until near midnight in the east.

Still appears another surge of arctic air will be trying to make its way to the Tennessee Valley, next week. It is currently building over the northern shore of Alaska and into the Northwest Territories of Canada. There is still uncertainty as to how the entire pattern will set up in allowing the release of this arctic air into the U.S. and especially the eastern half of the nation but the GFS and ECMWF are at least showing a similar solution, this afternoon, providing with a close combined solution of the two and then yet a

completely different solution with the Canadian. The Canadian; however, is a relatively consistent look to itself compared to yesterday’s 12z run and similar to yesterday’s ECMWF.

So which solution is likely to be right? As of now I still am not convinced on either one being completely correct and still believe a compromise of the two are in order.As a result, it appears it will likely be wet again across the Valley Monday/Tuesday as the arctic front nears. The big question is where will a developing surface low along the arctic boundary go? The GFS and ECMWF want to allow the arctic front to enter the Valley and stall while a surface boundary develops in the northern Gulf of Mexico. They both take the low then to the northeast but they differ in exact location with the GFS much further north with the low tracking from near New Orleans to Montgomery, AL to Athens, GA.

The ECMWF tracks the low from south of New Orleans to Albany, GA to the east-central coast of North Carolina.

One thing of note, the GFS operational is on the northern end of the ensembles solution with the general ensemble consensus leaning towards the ECMWF. The Canadian takes the surface low out of the Red River Valley and lifts it into the Ohio Valley.

At this point it is really fruitless to try to nail down where this low will track as the daily solutions will likely change like they did from yesterday to today and like we saw with the storm system just a few days ago.

As of now, yes, this would be a system to monitor for the possibility of some wintry precipitation but whether or not anything of consequence develops is still a big question and one that just simply can’t be answered based on the overall low confidence in the forecast. As I have mentioned a few times this winter, forecasts involving the edge of arctic air can be quite difficult and the exact location of this edge and depth of cold will be the overall determining factors on precipitation type.

I do feel pretty confident on the increase threat for rain Monday into Tuesday. Beyond that, confidence in the forecast becomes low and my advice is to monitor the forecast day-to-day for the likely changes that will come.

Regarding temperatures, because I do think we will eventually get into the arctic air for a couple of days later next week I have forecast temperatures that are quite a bit colder than the GFS Mos. The Canadian and ECMWF both agree on the strength and punch of the arctic air nosing into the Valley mid to late next week with the GFS showing a pattern in which the arctic air should also be nosing into the Valley during the same time frame but slows the arrival of the cold by a day or so. The raw, non-climate adjusted GFS data is in close alignment with the ECMWF and Canadian on strength of cold, then, but again is a day slower. The MOS is about 5 to 10 degrees warmer and that is likely due to the fact that MOS data is adjusted with the addition of climatological normals and the further out in the forecast time frame the higher chances of the trend towards climate takes place.

Lastly, in case you did not catch the previous post from earlier today here is the link as I think it is a good read. The recent large snow event that occurred January 9/10, 2011 provided researchers are NASA and the University of Alabama-Huntsville with some powerful data regarding winter storms, something they had been seeking for two years all over the eastern U.S. The funny thing is they ended up finally getting what they were looking for right here in their own back yard and a unlikely spot.

Friday
Mostly Sunny to Partly Cloudy
Low: 33 High: 52 (NW 5)

Saturday
Mostly Sunny and Mildly Warm
Low: 36 High: 63 (WSW 5-10)

Sunday
Clouds Increase, Chance Rain Showers Late (20%)
Low: 43 High: 60

Monday
Cloudy with Rain Showers (40%)
Low: 40 High: 53

Tuesday
Cloudy with Rain Likely (60%), Turning Colder
Low: 40 High: 50

Wednesday
Cloudy with Rain Changing to Snow Before Ending (60%). Temps Steady or Possibly Falling
Low: 32 High: 38

Thursday
Mostly Sunny and Cold
Low: 18 High: 35

Friday
Mostly Sunny and Continued Cold
Low: 16 High: 37

Saturday
Partly Cloudy
Low: 21 High: 43

Thanks for reading,

"Doppler" Dale

University of Alabama-Huntsville & NASA Capture High-Quality Research Data on a Winter Storm

Surprisingly, It Was in the Tennessee Valley

Thought this to be some interesting information, especially for those of you in the Tennessee Valley. Who would have thought that high-quality research data on a winter storm that had been sought for the previous two winter seasons would come right in the back-yard of the research team from the University of Alabama-Huntsville? Below is the official press release provided by

the University on this exciting news and project.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Jan. 26, 2011) -- Who would have guessed that the perfect place to gather detailed scientific data from a powerful snowstorm would be in Alabama?

That turned out to be the case last week, however, as scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and NASA's Earth Sciences Office used a network of mobile and on-site instruments -- many designed to study severe thunderstorms -- to get some of the most detailed measurements ever taken of a major snow storm in action.

The hometown storm that gave them this opportunity arrived only after UAHuntsville's severe weather team spent portions of the last two winters as part of a multi-organization research campaign, intercepting storms from Wisconsin to Columbia, SC, (and storms with snow as far south as Paducah, KY) without getting the complete dataset they were seeking.

Another group of UAH scientists working with NASA recently collected data about snowstorms in Finland.

"This was much more economical and efficient," said Dr. Kevin Knupp, a professor of atmospheric

science and the director of UAHuntsville's severe weather research. "We have all these instruments around here and we can deploy them at a moment's notice. We have the luxury of grabbing data on significant weather systems as they go through."

To help grab data on the Jan. 9-10 storm, the research team used university and NASA instruments at Cramer Research Hall, two lightning detector networks, an advanced dual polarization Doppler radar at Huntsville International Airport, and the National Weather Service Doppler radar at Hytop in Jackson County. Knupp also sent the university's mobile dual polarization Doppler radar unit to set up outside of New Market in northeastern Madison County.

"We are studying the storm's 'comma,' the area of small scale waves or instabilities near the end of a storm system," said Ryan Wade, a student in UAHuntsville's atmospheric science Ph.D. program, as he helped set up the radar in New Market. "Those instabilities can dump large amounts of snow over small areas. That's why you might have a storm that drops four inches of snow across a hundred miles, but eight inches in one place and a dusting in another.

What causes these waves isn't well studied or understood. This is a unique opportunity to study the comma part of this storm."

Learning more about what happens in the comma of a snowstorm was the plan. Then the storm got ... interesting.

The interesting things included thundersnow -- with one lightning flash stretching about 50 miles from the top of Monte Sano to just south of Moulton --

and almost a dozen gravity waves rippling westward from the top of Monte Sano, apparently triggering some of the heaviest snowfall in North Alabama records.

Lightning detection networks set up by NASA and UAHuntsville scientists detected seven lightning flashes during the snowstorm, including four that hit a broadcast tower on Monte Sano. The 50-mile-long flash hit just after 10:30 p.m., and included four cloud-to-ground strikes: Normal lightning detectors would have seen that single lightning bolt as four separate events.

Lightning occurs in snowstorms only under special conditions, which include the presence of updrafts. Ice particles carried aloft on these updrafts bump against each other, swapping electrons and building an electric charge.

But sustained updrafts are uncommon in snowstorms. That's where the gravity waves come in. A gravity wave is simply a wave in the atmosphere similar to waves in the water. Air is pushed up the front of the wave and falls down the back. These waves can start in a number of ways, such as a violent updraft in a thunderstorm or a sudden change in the jet stream.

Knupp says the eleven gravity waves that rippled across Huntsville and western Madison County and into eastern Limestone County the night of January 9 were caused by wind blowing out of the east bumping into and being pushed over Monte Sano after atmospheric conditions got right.

"The storm had almost continuous gravity waves, especially at the start. The first was about 9 p.m., just before the snow started," Knupp said, stopping to think. "That's interesting, too ... they started around the time the snow started. That might make sense."

In addition to providing the updrafts needed to trigger lightning, the waves also cause rapid cooling in clouds as ice and supercooled water in them are pushed upward. This might trigger heavy precipitation: One gravity wave went over minutes before a National Weather Service employee reported that one inch of snow fell in only 20 minutes.

The research team also found evidence of the storm waves they were looking for in the first place. "There were wave-like motions going on in different directions at different scales," said Knupp. "There were bands of snow coming from the southwest.

"At one point, between 9 p.m. and midnight, the Huntsville airport reported four inches of snowfall in one hour. That might happen in the Midwest, but not often. It will be very rare down here. I won't be surprised if that was caused by the interaction of one of these bands with a gravity wave."

Of course, one of the challenges with having a few dozen instruments gathering data on a weather event is finding resources to analyze the vast amount of data that is collected. For instance, one UAH radar unit operating on campus was pointed straight up so it could get a vertical profile of the passing storm's structure six times a second.

"We can't analyze everything. There's just too much," Knupp said. "It's frustrating but also good.

There are several specialists at UAHuntsville and NASA who might apply for funding to pay for studying and making sense of data from the storm, he said. "If you already have good data, it probably makes getting funding approved more likely."

Thanks for reading,

"Doppler" Dale

More Arctic Cold Eyes the Nation

But Model Mayhem Provides Uncertainties on Where and When

It was a busy start to the week for many meteorologists and emergency officials in the Tennessee Valley as they tried to determine how much snow the Valley would see with the most recent storm but one of those meteorologist that wasn't busy was myself. I apologize for not being able to provide posts with ideas here or on the Facebook page but I was a bit under the weather and was just briefly glancing at the data.

But what happened and where was the snow? I understand there were several different forecasts all about with some sources beating the snow drum nearly 5 days in advance with the discussion of up to 12" of the white stuff. Even last night there was a Winter Storm Warning in effect for last night into this morning, so when you woke up this morning and looked out to see bare ground you were likely scratching your head and wondering where did it go.

Well, even in today's high tech world full of computers and powerful equations the forecast just a few hours out can still be a BIG bust. Late last week, yes, the computer guidance was indicating the potential of a large snow event for the Valley but what happens, often, is as the event nears the error of the models becomes apparent. Long range models, more times than not, will end up originally forecasting the storm to be too far south and east versus what actually happens and this was a prime example.

This weekend, it was becoming clearer and clearer that the storm was going to provide enough warm air into the Valley that the initial precipitation surge was going to be in the form of rain and not snow or something in between. As a result, the forecast for snow was becoming more and more focused on the vigorous upper level wave that was forecast to track over central Alabama and intensify. This was then forecasting the potential for a thin band of moderate to heavy snow across the Tennessee Valley and into southern-middle Tennessee. I have learned over the past 15 years of forecasting that these type of events are difficult to forecast in advance and really can not be pin-pointed until they become evident on radar. These events do provide the potential of picking up several inches of accumulating snow as what typically happens is that the precipitation band rotates around in nearly the same spot for several hours and slowly lifts out. The band can easily be just tens of miles wide with little if any snow out side of the band.

What happened last night and into this morning was the upper level wave was much further north, tracking across Tennessee. As a result, the main area of associated precipitation with this energy was confined well north of the Valley, generally along and north of I-40. with the heaviest snow falling across northwest Tennessee into southern Kentucky. This storm is a prime example why caution is advised when forecasting snowfall amounts. The earliest snowfall amounts should even be discussed is when the storm is within about 48 hours and better yet about 24 hours out. As a forecaster there are times it is tough to admit we won't always be right and this won't be the last storm that will be over or even under forecast as weather forecasting still remains an imperfect science. This was definitely a humbling reminder of that!

Enough looking back and answering why and what happened and now on to the forecast. A generally quiet weather pattern for the end of the week and into the weekend. The overall pattern with continue to maintain a ridge across the Pacific Coast with a trough over the eastern half of the U.S. As you head south of the Ohio River the bottom of the trough sets in and the flow becomes generally flat and zonal, west to east. As a result, a couple of “Clippers” will move through the Great Lakes with trailing cold fronts sliding through the Mid-Mississippi Valley and Ohio Valley, through Saturday. This keeps the “Cold” air to the north of the Tennessee Valley and actually, each arriving Clipper will help turn winds to the south-southwest and this will allow the Valley to warm to seasonal and above seasonal levels.

The weather pattern becomes more active again into next week as another “BIG” punch of arctic air takes aim on the U.S. but its timing and exact track it will take are still up in the air as the computer forecasts are varying greatly. For now, following a 60/40 blend of the ECMWF and GFS for next week providing for a bit warmer solution a day longer as the the ECMWF is slower with the arrival of the arctic air and then hangs on to the colder air for a day or so more than the GFS.

For fun, here are a couple of the forecast images from the three major long range models for next Tuesday morning. The Canadian (CMC) and GFS are both much faster with the arrival while the ECMWF has a surface low in the center of the nation that it wants to cut to the northeast and then allow the cold air to follow. What will likely happen is something of a compromise of all three. For those looking for snow with this pattern the CMC provides the forecast of the best opportunity for the Lone Star State. Beware, though, this individual solution will likely change with tonight’s run and is just something of fun to show. One thing I am sure of is that the day-to-day forecast will be changing daily as we near next week and are able to have a better handle on the next arctic air mass and the overall weather pattern that will be setting up.

Thursday
Mostly Sunny and Seasonal
Low: 27 High: 52 (SW 5-10)

Friday
Mostly Sunny to Partly Cloudy
Low: 32 High: 52 (NW 5-10)

Saturday
Mostly Sunny and Mildly Warm
Low: 33 High: 63

Sunday
Mostly Cloudy, Slight Chance Rain Showers Late (20%)
Low: 37 High: 60

Monday
Cloudy with Rain Showers (40%)
Low: 43 High: 53

Tuesday
Cloudy with Rain (40%)
Low: 45 High: 55

Wednesday
Cloudy with Flurries Possible (20%). Much Colder
Low: 27 High: 40

Thursday
Variably Cloudy
Low: 18 High: 40

Friday
Mostly Sunny
Low: 20 High: 44

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Thanks for reading,

"Doppler" Dale