Forecast for Western/Northwestern WI

After our little brief warm up, people are now asking what happen to spring again....2013 has been a year without a spring....This weekend will feel more like a fall weekend than a spring weekend.... Normal highs...Today...66 Forecasted high of 60....-6 degree below normal....Saturday normal high is 66. Forecasted high of 48...-18 below normal...Sunday normal high is 66 forecasted high of 50...-16 below normal....Lows will be cold also...38 tonight 27 Saturday night 33 Sunday night......No spring in the Northwoods.....Monday still looks to be cold with below normal temps....Good news is there is another warm up on its way....More on that in a few......

***CURRENT CONDITIONS***

All stations reporting sunny skies, temps in the lower 50s....Winds from the North/Northeast from 5 to 6 MPH..EAU reporting wind gust up to 17 MPH....

Dewpoints across the area are in the lower to middle 20s.

***FORECAST DISCUSSION***

Look for late October/early November temps for this weekend.....For today High pressure North of Lake Superior will keep a dry cold flow over the area....This will keep skies sunny throughout the day.....Winds should begin to slacking off as we head through the afternoon....Meanwhile we will see a weak cold front move into the area later tonight, this will bring another reinforcing shot of cold air....Moisture is limited with this cold front, however we still be see a good chance of showers later tonight....Front sweeps through the area rather fast...So look for clearing skies to start your Saturday....Winds tomorrow will be brisk from the Northwest 10 to 20 MPH with gust up to 25 MPH...Saturday night the winds die off and under clear skies look out we could be looking a a hard freeze event, frost will be likely at the least......Sunday will shine with sunny skies, but temps will still be cold! Sunday night should see another round of frost...Monday we will see a warm front slowly starting to work its way towards the area......This should spark off some showers and thunderstorms.....Temps will still be running below normal.....Tuesday is going to be a pain in the butt with temps.....Warm front is forecasted to push into my Western areas....Now if this warm front clears the whole forecast area this would be easy...Some computer models not seeing eye to eye on far the front will make it on Tuesday....West of the warm front temps soar into the middle to upper 80s, while East of the front temps reach for the lower 80s....Warn front will have cleared the whole area Tuesday night, only to be followed by a cold front Tuesday night.....This will knock the temps back into the 70s for the rest of the week......Also there will be a chance of showers and thunderstorms for the rest of the week....Severe thunderstorms seen unlikely at this time......

To sum it up....

This weekend will be cold, followed by a warm up, then followed by a slight cool down....Showers tonight....Then dry the rest of the weekend.....Then off and on chances of showers and thunderstorms......

Historic May major winter storm....

During the late evening hours of May 1st into the afternoon hours of May 2nd, a Historic major winter storm plowed through the area....

Rice Lake smashes an all time state record, it was the biggest snowfall in May ever on records per The Weather Channel along with other News Media....We picked up 17 inches of snow as of yesterday afternoon....We did add to that total some...But for this write we will run with 17 inches......Eau Claire also smashes a record for the top 5 snowiest May on their record books....

They picked up 8.7 inches of snow....This will rank as number one now....The last record was set back in May of 2001 where they picked up 3.3 inches of snow...Ok back to Rice Lake....

We had lots of tree damage throughout Rice Lake, with power lines being downed, This was also reported throughout Barron County, along with other parts of Western/Northwestern WI.Main tree damage was done to pine trees and older oaks and willows....If this would have been a regular spring, we would have been dealing with more tree damage do to the fact the trees would have had a good start on their leaves,which would have caught more snow.....Some trees/ large tree branches did fall on some cars causing damage to them, even some house damage was reported throughout the area....Lots of people were without power for sometime throughout Northwestern WI...Still some areas of this written still without power....

So what took place to give us this Historic snow storm....Well first off we had a cold front push through the area on Wednesday this brought down some colder temps..Then we had a slow moving upper level low pressure dive to the South, With a SFC low pressure also moving through...Both this features were able to tap into lots of moisture...The weather pattern is in a blocky pattern....There are like 5 or 6 different cut off lows....But this winter and spring we have seen this a lot.....The weather pattern really hasn't changed....Though it did for a few days when were able to get into the 70s, until this weather pattern breaks down look for colder temps and areas of rain and snow....Good news is next week looks better....Highs closer to 70.....Maybe then things will start to look up.....This major snow storm will be talked about for many years to come!!

Here are some pictures I took yesterday....The video link will be below the pictures....

Here is the link to the video I shot yesterday morning.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuvkfRf3rxI&list=UUBWwZo_RCDoIgDmRfacj7YQ&index=1