A little confused today.

You might here this from me through the month of March. This is my Michigan mind kicking in. Where’s the Snow? Why is it near 50 degrees on Jan 11th? I’m just a little confused today (Friday). Let’s see if this local and national forecast makes a little January sense.

I am working on my meteorology degree through Mississippi State Broadcast GEO Sciences Program Online. I was visiting with my teacher today (Friday), and they had a major severe weather outbreak in Mississippi on Thursday. He chased one of the storms that he believed dropped a high EF-3 tornado, and caused severe damage. A school was severely damaged by the storm as a school bus thrown into it. Fortunately, no one was killed.

Unlike Monday’s severe weather outbreak that brought unusual January tornadoes all the way up to the Great Lakes, this is not uncommon to see a tornado outbreak in the Gulf States this time of year. We live in what’s known as Tornado Alley here in Greater Nebraska. Mississippi, Alabama, and the states near the Gulf are what’s known as Dixie Alley. Their peak tornado season is right now through early April.

In Nebraska, we are going to say good-bye to the sunshine on Saturday as a week storm system moves in to Greater Nebraska. This will bring clouds and a slight chance of a rain and snow mix. Highs will also be a good 10 degrees cooler, only in the mid 30s. Sunday we rebound rather nicely with sunny skies, and highs near 40. We warm up into the mid to upper 40s on Monday and Tuesday before a major change in the weather on Tuesday night.

The warm temperatures will be a distant memory on Wednesday, as highs will struggle to make it into the lower 20s with lows at night at or below zero. There is also a slight chance of snow Tuesday night into Wednesday.