Feels Like Christmas

Temperatures this morning got amazingly cold for this time of the year, especially since there was no snow on the ground which would typically help us get that cold. The map below are temperatures at 11:59 pm on Thursday which actually ended up being our low temperature for Thursday. Sioux Falls was already down to 9 degrees. We finally bottomed out at 5 am when we hit 5 degrees which is 14 degrees below average. But look how cold parts of Canada was. Even Canada isnt usually that cold this time of the year with temps some 10, 20, even 30 degrees below zero. The line I have drawn on here is the 10 degree isotherm, or basically the 10 degree line. North of that line, temperatures were colder this morning then 10, and south of that line, temperatures were warmer this morning then 10.

However, this wedge of cold air over the midwest will thankfully begin to shift East today so tonight and tomorrow look warmer. Bundle up!

~KDLT Meteorologist Cody Matz