Friday, October 16, 2009

The forecast for Weastern/Northwestern WI.

Forecast problems still revolve a shortwave/trof in the area for today and tonight...Precip type main issue....Then a nice little warm up on the way starting tomorrow and lasting through much of next week...Good time to get out and finish up the yard work.....

CURRENT CONDITIONS.....

Temps this morning range from upper 20s North to middle 30s elsewhere's under cloudy skies..Winds at light to calm...Some areas reporting fog....Other than that not a bad morning morning for Western/Northwestern WI...

SFC ANALYSIS......

This morning Shortwave.trof pushing through MN at this early morning hrs,shows up rather well on the WV loop...We also find a large 1025 MB high pressure off to our West through out the Rockies into Canada....

TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT...

The FA area will still be dealing with another shortwave/trof this should be the one....This will insure us of a cloudy day with rain/snow through out the area,however it shall be light...Looking at the thickness we find the 540 line well to our South and West,this would suggest all light snow,however with the lowest part of the atmosphere much warmer today we should see a rain/snow mix....Little or no snow accumulation is forecasted...Highs today lower 40s North/Central to middle 40s South..Tonight under cloudy skies with off and on rain/snow showers lows fall to around the lower 30s North/Central to around the middle 30s South....

SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY....

Time to get out and get the yard work done....Looks like a nice weekend setting up...High pressure is forecasted to make camp over the area...Return flow will start to bring in warmer air back into the FA...Highs on Sat...range from the middle 40s North/Central to upper 40s South under partly to mostly sunny skies...Lows on Sat night fall back into the the 30s through the FA...Sunday another nice day with highs in the upper 40s North to lower to middle 50s Central to the upper 50s in my Southern areas...Lows Sun night warm middle to upper 30s.....Back to work/school Monday...One word WOW warm temps are in the forecast....Middle 50s North and Central,also will have a chance at rain showers up in them areas...While our Southern areas enjoy PC skies with highs in the upper 50s....

TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.....

Temps do cool back down into the lower to middle 50s through out the area with lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s...Yes more rain on it's way through this time frame...This system may bring down some cooler weather for the upcoming weekend...

Looking ahead the 27 and the 28 may see some more snow in the forecast....540 line pushes to our west....This system may be Southern WI first big snows of the season...Stay tuned this is way out there and things can and sure bet they change,nevertheless something we need to watch.....We will have more on this later...

SIDE NOTE....

We will no longer being doing a fall color updates as we are now past peak here in Rice Lake and for most part points North of there...However one still can check out fall color reports from Derek's blog over at NW Wisconsin Weather..See side bar for he's link....