Arctic blast and winter storm
From the Washington Post comes this map of temperatures over much of North America, a result of the artic blast and winter storm begun today, Thursday. In the Boston area rain is expected. The temperature tonight actually is rising from from about 43 degrees F. to the low 50’s F. , to continue throughout Friday, and then eventually falls to 12 degrees F. by Saturday morning. How is your weather?
Hey Dan:
Been single digits during the day, here in Denver. Minus 5 right now. This is something I expected for temperature. It had dropped 3-4 inches of snow when we got here a couple of days ago.
Heading up to Breckenridge later in the dead. Another 4000 feet up. I expect it to be colder there. Air is dry right now. Could use some humidity. The day is crisp and everything crackles.
It hit 20 degrees last night here in Houston and we are expecting a high of 36 degrees today. This cold weather is expected to last till Christmas.
We have some humidity that Run is welcome too.
It’s already 2 degrees here in Wichita, headed for the teens and then warming each day until we’re in the 50s on Wednesday. Yesterday, we hit -5 in the late morning before rising to a high of 2 in the afternoon. The temperature drop was rapid and started around the midnight at the start of Thursday (32 degrees at midnight, 12 an hour later). (They should put a degree sign on the keyboard. A cent sign, too.)
In Green Bay well off the frightening predictions around Monday. Cold, but normal winter. Minus 8 yesterday, but already +5. About half the snowfall from early forecasts and no appreciable yesterday, which was to have been a terrible blizzard per old forecasts. Not sure if storm was a lot weaker or just tracked away.
Eric:
You appear to have found a niche.
In Sandston, VA it was a bright sunny 13F at 10AM on Christmas Eve. Forecast high for 4PM today is a balmy 26F. Tomorrow’s forecast high is 35F, a welcome present for Christmas Day.
The long range forecast has us topping 60F by New Year’s Eve, which is more typical weather for this time of year in central VA.