UPDATE ON THE ARCTIC BLAST

Arctic air has a hold of the FA...This will be the trend right through the end of the week..With slightly warmer air for Friday into Friday night...

Once again I don't see eye to eye with the NWS and news and radio media....But one has to look at the trend of this Arctic blast along with computer models...One would see some of the lesser reliable models,and only one of the reliable model, do point towards warmer air,however most of the models showing the cold air hanging tight.The trend of this Arctic air has been doing rather well,my forecasts have shown this...Also interesting News media and yes the NWS did jump on the band wagon to show temps remaining below zero for today..So I see no reason why to change the forecast to bring tomorrow's temps above zero..(I would hope temps climb above zero)..So for Wednesday don't look for temps above zero unless you are in my Southern FA..After this clipper tonight moves through temps may warm to around -5 in the early morning if we are lucky,however temps will start to fall in the afternoon....
Temps still well below zero this afternoon....-10 here at the office -7 at the Rice Lake airport...Heat island effect working it's magic,just like it did last night...Here at the office temps dropped to -21.5 while at the airport it was -18....
Temps will remain below zero to Friday when some WAA kicks....Tonight through Thursday night temps repeating once again temps will remain below zero for highs....Over night lows tonight may be a few degrees warmer than last night with a clipper passing way to our Southwest once again...This will cause clouds to increase and should keep temps up some....Chance of snow will also move back into the area tonight...Could see less than inch...Unlike Monday's clipper that brought in 1.5 inches here at the office and Spooner..While South of Rice Lake 1.30 was reported.....Wednesday night and Thursday night temps will range from -25 to -30......Warmer air is in the forecast Friday temps should be a few degrees either side of zero..Saturday we should see around 10 above...Sunday lower 20s possible.... I don't buy into the lower 30s for Monday not just yet...20s seem to be more reasonable..