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EMERGING FROM THE TUNDRA...
It's no secret it's been cold lately. Temperatures Saturday evening are sitting well below zero across the Upper Midwest:
We've been unfortunately pretty familiar with subzero temperatures lately. Temperatures have been running well below normal over the last two weeks. Here's a look at the last 7 days:
It's easy to have arctic air pour in when you have lots of snow on the ground too! Here's the current snowpack:
That's a lot of snow that's largely built up over the last 14 days... eastern Iowa and western Illinois are right in the bullseye of the heaviest snow over the last 2 weeks!
When the weekend started we had a trough of cold air in overhead:
And currently a big ridge of high pressure is building in:
We'll be in the teens on Sunday which will feel like a heat wave!
And we could get even above freezing by Monday:
This will come with the potential for a wintry mix, as Terry outlined in his last post.
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