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There's an old saying about paying the piper, implying you've been avoiding the inevitable, and it's time to face reality and pay your debt. In the context of our weather, it means we've been living on easy street and that time has come and gone. The second half of January will definitely have the true look and feel of winter. Find the bullet, you're gonna need to bite it. Here's what we're facing: Occasional snow showers this weekend, especially near and north of I-80. Accu

Well, it was nice while it lasted, but the reality is "winter break is over". Heading into the weekend, it looks like we're in for a little bit of snow and a lot of cold. Beyond that, teleconnections strongly support what should be a colder and a perhaps snowier period the remainder of the month. Keep your mukluks handy. The transition started Tuesday night when a stout front whipped up northwest winds that howled all night and into the day Wednesday, with gusts of 38 to 43 m

After a month of relatively mild, quiet weather, the Arctic hounds are stirring, and it won't be long before they howl a chilling song. Winter is coming back, my friends, and the next 2–3 weeks have the potential to be both cold and snowy, certainly snowier than the last 30 days. It's hard to get a specific handle on snow more than 7 days out, but I certainly see much greater potential the last week of January. The ensembles of the EURO show this for amounts the next two week

We got the week off to an exceptional start Monday with abundant sunshine, light winds, and highs in the range of 45-50. This comes during a two-week period where January temperatures have been running well above normal, as much as 13.6 degrees per day in Lowden, Iowa, according to my climate guru Steve Gottschalk. Included in that was a day last Friday when highs in the upper 50s to low 60s were found areawide. That produced exceptionally moist air that generated scattered t