If you are sick and tired of the cold and snow in the Midwest on this brutally cold Sunday, you just need to wait a bit longer for changes as the pattern is continuing to show major signals for a big pattern flip towards the end of the month. Above you can see the European Ensemble has a rather strong ridge taking over by Christmas week which would shut off the active storm track and favor a generally warming pattern. Starting Sunday morning most of the area will be below zer

WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY SATURDAY FOR SNOW COLD WEATHER ADVISORY SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY Our 17-day onslaught of winter weather ends with a bang this weekend, one that features another snow system over the south and a quick but intense shot of Arctic air. For perspective, since Thanksgiving, the majority of my area has seen 10–22 inches of snow. That does not take into account what ends up falling today. Here's a larger perspective of 14 day snowfall totals, which shows the

Thursday was a tale of dry air as far as my area was concerned. Models really struggled to define its southern extent and the impact it would have on snow. In the end, it was further southwest than expected by at least 30 miles. That made a difference, with most of the accumulations, (which were generally in the 1-3 inch range) ending up just SW of the Quad Cities. The largest totals, in spots, could have hit 4 inches in the blue-green shading below from near Williamsburg to

The first of two clippers is bearing down on the region as it zips steadily southeast. The atmosphere is in the process of saturating and snow should begin soon in my western counties in Iowa (if it hasn't already) and spread across the rest of the west and south into Illinois by 3 to 4:00pm. Here's the latest radar around 12:30pm. In my northeast counties, dry air remains firmly in place, forcing the snow band to largely avoid this part of my area. As a result, accumulations

We've been in the throes of winter recently, with one of the coldest and snowiest starts to the season in decades. Here's the snow that's fallen the past 2 weeks. Many of us have already seen more than we did all of last year, and it's not even winter yet! Here's the temperature departures, which are running 9 to 11 degrees below normal per day over that same stretch of time. It's reminiscent of the winters of the late 70s, which were epic in every sense of the word for those