Light At The End Of The Tunnel?

Well, Cody showed you a first glance at that bigger storm headed our way toward the start of next week. It looks like it will be nasty again for a couple of days, at least. With all of this cold weather, you might be wondering when we'll actually get some "real" warmth.


Check out that slide above - this is from our shows tonight, and gives away what I'm about to show you. Basically - we have a dip in the jetstream that is allowing very chilly air to move in over us. What we want is a bubble, or "ridge," in the jetstream that will allow warmer air to move in. There is nothing like that in today's computer models until April 5-6 - but look at this map below:

These are surface temperatures forecasted for Sunday the 5th of April. Not exactly jaw-dropping temperatures warmth-wise - but look at how much better it gets one day later:

Now we're getting somewhere! High temperatures for Tuesday the 7th could end up close to 60s. We'll have to keep an eye on that - but for now that is FAR, far away. Things could easily change by then - and perhaps even change for the better. We'll have to see, but for now at least that gives us some hope as we experience these highs about 15-20 degrees below average.

Have a great night!

~KDLT Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer