We are looking for temperatures to continue to flip flop over the next few days. What I mean is that one day will be relatively mild while the next will be noticeably colder. Take this morning for instance; we had temperatures some 20-40 degrees colder this morning then yesterday morning. That's a pretty incredible jump. Well, that trend will continue tonight as lows will be in the early evening and then will begin to rise after 10pm. That means that by the time you wake up tomorrow morning, temperatures could already be in the twenties. It's much easier to just show you what I'm talking about. Below is a sequence of surface temperatures for the U.S. The first one is for 6pm tonight, the second is midnight, and the third is 6am tomorrow morning. Look how the temperatures actually rise during the night when we usually see them fall.
Now, to drive that warmer air in so quickly, you need a lot of warm air surging northward. Well, as you can imagine, that much moving air causes a tremendous amount of wind. Combining that wind and the temperature, you can determine the wind chill (the "feels like" temperature). So even with temperatures significantly warmer tonight then last night, it may end up feeling about the same. So bundle up if you're headed out tonight because its definitely going to feel like January.
~KDLT Meteorologist Cody Matz
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How is the long-term forecast looking for January? Any big snow storms in the future?
Hello Hurley,
It looks like in the beginning of 2009 we'll see some temperatures either near or above-average for the most part. From the looks of it, at least the first couple of weeks of January are looking pretty nice temperature-wise. We'll be seeing at least a couple of days in the first week at or above average, with no major snowstorms in the works (yet, at least).
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