The Winter Ingredients Recipe – Iowa Weather Network Archives

RECIPE FOR WINTER: The sun will return to the skies today with a few clouds around as well. A cup of cooler weather will be in store as well with readings in the upper 30s to middle 40s for highs today. Clouds will mix into the weather bowl later this evening and into the overnight with the next storm system coming in from the west. A post on this winter weather event that will be occurring Friday into Friday night is available on the website at this time. Highs on Friday will be in the upper 30s north to lower and middle 40s south. If you think the cold air of today is bad, you haven’t seen what Mother Nature has whipped up in her weather kitchen for the weekend. Bitterly cold air, at least for November standards will swing into the state. Highs on Saturday and Sunday will struggle to get out of the upper 20s and lower and middle 30s with lows Sunday morning in the teens for the most part, however a few places could see readings dip into the single digits as well. A real recipe for winter across our state upcoming.

OUT WITH COLD IN WITH WARMTH: Temperatures will begin to modify as we head into the new work week as winds switch out of the south and southwest by the middle of next week. This should help to melt any of the snow that may fall from the storm system on Friday. This should also boost our readings well into the 40s and lower 50s in some areas. Unfortunately, another storm system is looking to move into the state Wednesday and into Thanksgiving and Black Friday with a chance of what looks to be mainly rain. We could see some wintry mix on Friday in our southeastern counties as the precipitation ends but we’re still a bit uncertain of that at this time.

ARCTIC BLAST?: As we look into the extended period, the GFS shows a big spill of arctic weather crashing into the country from Canada. A 1056mb high pressure is shown coming into Montana and heading south-southeastward to near the Oklahoma Panhandle by the 1st of December. If this occurs, we could see readings near 0 in some areas at night with highs struggling to get into the 20s. Of course this is just model data, but it is something to keep an eye on as we move forward. Temperatures are shown to moderate toward the end of the period with more seasonal readings around the 4th or so. At this time, the period is mainly dry with only scattered flurries possible ahead of the arctic push.