Blog: Dry and chilly today. A few showers Wednesday.

Surface Map Tomorrow

Posted: Jan 30, 2024 / 08:55 AM EST

Updated: Jan 30, 2024 / 08:55 AM EST

Today doesn’t look like it will be too bad outside. We started the day with a mix of sun and clouds. Temps were as mixed as the sky conditions. We had 30s and 40s in the metro with 20s inland. Today we have a weak area of high pressure just to our west. There is an area of low pressure that we are tracking over the Midwest.

We’ll have a mix of sun and clouds up through the early afternoon. Then as high pressure moves to the south we’ll have increasing cloud cover. We’ll have a northeast wind at about 8-12mph. That will keep the temps down in the 40s later today.

You may notice the very mild temps up in the north/central U.S. Temps up that way will be running about 20-25 degrees above average. 60s in Billings Montana? Wow!

There will definitely be a lot of melting snow up there today. Tomorrow, a large upper level trough will swing down our way from the Midwest. That surface low in the Midwest will also head our way, but it will weaken quite a bit.

At the same time an area of low pressure will be forming offshore. This will strengthen through the day. Our region will be in-between these weakening/strengthening systems. So we’ll catch a few rain showers, but there will definitely be more rain to our east and our west.

We’ll be mostly cloudy through the day with a few peeks of sun. There will be a stronger northeast breeze. Gusts will be up to 20mph. This will cap the high temps at 48-51 degrees.