We're just getting into the swing of fall and now the threat of our first frost is looming. It's a little hard to track when the first "frost" happens because frost can happen at a range of temperatures under the right conditions. Per the National Weather Service: "Typically, frost can occur when the temperature falls below 36°F, especially in rural areas. It is a localized phenomena and can be quite variable across a small area." We can track when we typically fall below 32°

After a gloomy start to the weekend, there will be more sunshine around Sunday. Temperatures will be hanging out near normal: And it'll be nice and comfortable with low humidity with a cold front to our south and high pressure moving in from the north: We'll stay nice and fall-like and cool to start the week. We'll be running 5-10 degrees below normal Monday afternoon! And we'll repeat Tuesday: And Wednesday: During this time there will be plenty of sunshine.... little to no

Friday is was what I would call a dark dreary start to the weekend. Not only were there a few light showers around, high temperatures in many spots did not get out of the 50s, easily making this the coldest day in that regard since May 5th. If you're wondering, that's a span of 141 days. Friday's chill was felt across all of the Midwest with many locations 10-17 degrees below average. While there were some showers around, as expected they didn't amount to much in my area and

Here we are on the first full day of autumn and if there is one thing I can definitively say, today will have the look and feel of fall. Under high pressure early last night skies were clear and temperatures made a quick fall into the upper 40s to near 50. At daybreak, the ridge is east of us and winds are veering to the south, what's known as return flow. That combined with a weak upper air disturbance, has already generated warm advection clouds which continue to increase F

At 8:04 P.M. Thursday evening, the Autumnal Equinox occurs signaling the official start to fall. It's only one of two times per year when the Earth's axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in a "nearly" equal amount of daylight and darkness at all latitudes. These events are referred to as Equinoxes. The word equinox is derived from two Latin words - aequus (equal) and nox (night). At the equator, the sun is directly overhead at noon during the dates o