January 10, 2024 | Posted in News
I’M AMY LU ALL RIGHT. LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT IN WEATHER NEWS FOR YOU TONIGHT. THINGS ARE REALLY GOING TO CHANGE AS WE HEAD INTO TOMORROW. KEVIN ROBINSON JOINING US NOW. I WOULD SAY IT WOULD BE A GREAT DAY TO FLY A KITE, BUT IT’S NO LAUGHING MATTER BECAUSE YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TREE BRANCHES AND, YOU KNOW, ALL KINDS OF IT’S BEEN WET LATELY. IT’S NOT THE GREATEST FORMULA HERE. NO. AND I DO THINK THERE’S CERTAINLY THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME BRIEF POWER INTERRUPTIONS TOMORROW. AND SOME OF THE AREAS THAT THAT TYPICALLY HAVE THAT WHEN IT GETS REALLY WINDY TOMORROW. BUT REALLY THE COMMUTE, YOU’RE GOING TO NEED A LITTLE EXTRA TIME IN THE MORNING, MORE SO BECAUSE OF THE RAIN. YOU’RE JUST GOING TO NEED TO FACTOR IN A COUPLE OF EXTRA, MAYBE 15, 20 MINUTES, YOU KNOW, SO YOU DON’T HAVE YOURSELF IN ANY SITUATIONS CAUGHT UP OUT THERE. SO HERE WE ARE. SHOW YOU WHAT WE’RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW A BIG POTENT STORM IN THE MIDDLE PART OF THE COUNTRY. AND THIS IS KIND OF THE FIRST. AND WHAT’S GOING TO BE A SERIES OF POTENT STORMS OVER THE NEXT FIVE DAYS. OKAY. AND EACH ONE OF THESE IS LEADING US TOWARDS SOME FAIRLY HARSH WINTER WEATHER EARLY NEXT WEEK. BEFORE THEN, THESE ARE PRIMARILY RAINMAKERS FOR US, AND WE’RE GOING TO BE ON THE WARM SIDE OF THIS SYSTEM TO. MEANWHILE, IF YOU’RE TRYING TO HEAD TO THE AIRPORTS, IF YOU HAVE PLANS ON TRAVELING WEST TOWARDS CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY, ANYWHERE OUT THERE INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST, IT’S GOING TO BE PRETTY NASTY WITH A LOT OF SNOW FOR THOSE FOLKS HERE, THOUGH, IT’S RAIN AND WIND. THIS EVENING IS PRETTY QUIET. I DO THINK BETWEEN NOW AND TEN IT’S RELATIVELY QUIET. PROBABLY START TO SEE OUR FIRST FEW DROPS SOMEWHERE MID TO LATE EVENING THERE AROUND TEN OR SO. BUT REALLY THE IMPACTFUL RAIN MOVING IN AFTER MIDNIGHT AND THIS LOOKS TO BE ALL RAIN FOR US. I’M NOT WORRIED ABOUT ANYTHING FROZEN AROUND HERE TONIGHT, ALBEIT IT WILL BE CHILLY NOW TOMORROW MORNING FOR THE MORNING COMMUTE. EVEN IF THE HEAVIEST OF THE RAIN HAS TEMPORARILY TAPERED OFF, IT’S GOING TO BE VERY WINDY. THERE WILL BE A LOT OF STANDING WATER, SO THERE WILL BE A LOT OF THAT MIST ON THE ROADS. THAT’S WHY I SAY CERTAINLY AN EXTRA 15 MINUTES WOULDN’T BE BAD TO FACTOR IN TO YOUR MORNING COMMUTE FOR TOMORROW. SAVE YOURSELF THE HASSLE, BUT TOMORROW IS ESSENTIALLY A WASHOUT FROM START TO FINISH ALL AFTERNOON. ABOUT AS CLOSE AS YOU GET AROUND HERE, EVEN AGAIN, IF THE RAIN TAPERS OCCASIONALLY, IT’S JUST GOING TO BE ONE OF THOSE NASTY WINTER DAYS. FORTUNATELY, WE’RE WARM DURING THE DAY BEFORE IT TURNS COLD TOMORROW NIGHT. PROBABLY MID EVENING OR SO, AND WHATEVER RAIN SHOWERS ARE LEFT OVER BY THEN LIKELY WILL BE IN THE FORM OF SOME SNOW SHOWERS OVERNIGHT. TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. WHILE THIS ISN’T PARTICULARLY HEAVY AND FORTUNATELY IT WILL BE COMING ON THE HEELS OF A WARM GROUND, I WOULDN’T RULE OUT MAYBE EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING ON SOME ELEVATED SURFACES, A FEW SLICK SPOTS, BUT I DON’T EXPECT ANY BIG ACCUMULATION OUT OF THIS. MAYBE A DUSTING. WEDNESDAY. JUST WINDY AND COLD. HERE’S A LOOK AT YOUR IMPACT DAY. KIND OF BREAKING IT DOWN. RAIN AFTER TEN TONIGHT. PRETTY MUCH A SOAKER TOMORROW. SOME OF THE RAIN HEAVY, 1 TO 2IN OF RAIN. A GOOD BET. COULD HAVE SOME GUSTS CLOSE TO 40 TOMORROW EVENING WITH THOSE WINS AND THE END RESULT WET ROADS, MAYBE A FEW POWER OUTAGES AND YES, MUCH COLDER BY WEDNESDAY, A SOLID SOAKER. MOST OF US WILL PICK UP AN INCH AND A HALF TO PROBABLY JUST SHORT OF TWO INCHES OF RAIN. AND WHILE IT WILL BE WINDY STARTING TONIGHT THROUGH ALL DAY TOMORROW, THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL PROBABLY COME IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING, WHEN WE’LL HAVE GUSTS TO 35, POTENTIALLY GUSTING UPWARDS OF AROUND 40MPH HERE. IN THE MEANWHILE, IT’S KIND OF QUIET. THIS EVENING, 37 RIGHT NOW THERE’S THAT EAST WIND. I’VE BEEN SAYING IF YOU GO OUT, YOU CAN KIND OF FEEL THAT WIND PICKING UP. THAT’S HOW, YOU KNOW, A STORM’S APPROACHING. WE’LL SEE OUR TEMPERATURES BRIEFLY DIP THIS EVENING, AND THEN THEY’LL START TO CLIMB BACK TOWARDS 40 BY MORNING. THAT’S WHY IT’S ALL LIQUID FOR US. SO BECOMING WINDY TONIGHT AND WET 35 FOR AN OVERNIGHT LOW TOMORROW 50. TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN TO DROP THOUGH DURING THE AFTERNOON. NOTICE BY SIX. WE’RE ALREADY BACK DOWN INTO THE 30S AS WE TRANSITION TO MAYBE SOME SNOW SHOWERS IN HERE FOR TOMORROW NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. ALL RIGHT. YOUR SEVEN DAY FORECAST. I WENT AHEAD AND LEFT WEDNESDAY A WEATHER IMPACT DAY JUST FOR THE POTENTIAL OF MAYBE A FEW SLICK SPOTS EARLY. BUT THEN THURSDAY IS A QUIET DAY. AND THEN ANOTHER BIG WIND AND RAIN MAKER IN HERE ON FRIDAY. AND THEN MIKE AND SHEREE. IT LOOKS LIKE WE TURN COLD OVER THE WEEKEND, BUT THE HARSH COLD, THE HARSHEST OF THE COLD I THINK GETS IN HERE. WHAT COULD BE WITH A WINTER STORM EARLY NEXT WEEK AND BEYOND? THE SEVEN DAY TEMPERATURES ARE QUITE LIKELY, ESPECIALLY IF WE GET SOME SNOW NEXT WEEK TO PROBABLY GO BELOW ZERO SOMETIME NEXT WEEK. ALL RIGHT, BEEN A LONG TIME. WE ONLY HAD THAT LITTL