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Winter Weather Advisory

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Nice and Mild weather continuing! More clouds moving in for the weekend.

Regional View.

A warm high pressure has been moving slowly east the past few days. This has brought us some pleasant weather and mild temperatures. It looks like this high pressure system will stick around for another couple of days. So look for mild and sunny weather too continue!



Local View.

This weather definitely got some people in the mood for Spring, I know it has me wanting Spring!

The high pressure system giving us this nice weather will be slow to move off, Whats this mean for the local area? It means more sunny beautiful weather! Look for a pleasant Thursday with sunshine and highs in the Middle 30s! Lows above zero in the upper single digits. Friday also looks sunny and quite nice, with highs in the lower 30s, lows in the single digits. Then Saturday, it will be cooler becuase of more clouds, withs highs in the 20s, and increasing clouds. Daily forecast below.

Thursday, Sunny and Nice! calm winds with highs in the mid 30s. Thursday Night, Clear, lows in the upper signal digits.

Friday, continued Sunny & nice! highs in the low 30s. Friday Night, Clear to Partly Cloudy, lows in the mid single digits.

Saturday, Sunny at first, Then increasing clouds. Highs in the upper 20s. Saturday Night, Cloudy, lows in the upper single digits.

Looking Ahead Forecast.

The forecast models are showing cooler temperatures, Dry but cloudy weather for the weekend. Highs will slip back to the chilly side, into the lower to middle 20s. But lows will still remain above zero. Between Monday Feb 22 and Feb the 25th The Models are still showing a coolish, but not cold and Dry weather pattern. then the 26th The models are hinting and increased chances for snow, and Warming temperatures. Then March 1st looks like it may be the start of a sires of warm-ups I talked about last week, The models show a nice Warm-Up the 1st. Then the models hint at some snow, but mild for the 2nd. Then, it looks a bit cooler but dry weather for the 3rd/ 4th of March. Then towards the end of model run, it shows another stronger warm-up, towards March 5th. This warm-up could be the first signs of shifting into a more Early Spring-Like weather pattern. It is a long ways off, and things will definitely change between now and then, but the models to seem to be consistent with a warm-up. But March can bring anything! please stay tuned as we get closer.

3 comments:

Josh Herman said...

I had 39.9 for my max yesterday... Bahumbug on your Spring Fever and the long range model warm up! ;)

Headed up to Marquette, MI tomorrow for the UP200 and to do some hiking and site seeing. WINTER! :)

Unknown said...

There could be no better news than that of better weather.The cold has been so severe this winter that it was very very hard to go through it.

warm

Iowa Weather & Gardening said...

Bring on Spring I say J, LOL April, I agree I am excited for warmer times. May I ask where your from? are you from the local area?