Quite Cold Tonight, But Quite Mild This Weekend

Although sunny skies and seasonable temperatures in the 50’s dominated Greater Nebraska today, it felt chilly due to a northerly breeze, and the fact that we have been spoiled by a generally mild fall thus far. And we have a very mild to almost warm weekend coming up before what looks like major changes in the weather pattern bring in some true fall-like weather next week.

High pressure over North Dakota will slide southward tonight and be located just about right over Greater Nebraska overnight, before sliding south and eastward into the Ohio/Tennessee Valley Saturday evening. With the high right over us tonight, clear skies, dry air, and near calm winds will allow lows to fall to their coldest levels of the season so far with lows well into the teens by sunrise Friday.

But a southerly flow developing around the high as it moves to our east Friday will allow highs during the afternoon to recover to near 60, so a bit milder than today.
Friday night will be clear and still chilly with lows in the 20’s.

Then the weekend will be spectacular for the first weekend of November with sunshine and light southerly winds boosting highs into the 70’s both days, and it’s not out of the question that some highs could approach the 80 degree mark, which would be approaching record highs which are in the upper 70’s to low 80’s. So make plans to be outside for what will likely be the mildest weather until next Spring.

Monday will still be beautiful with sunshine and highs again in the 70’s.
But then a cold front dropping southeastward from the Pacific Northwest will bring the chance of showers as it moves through the area Tuesday, along with much cooler highs in the 50’s.

By the middle of next week, the forecast is a bit complicated since there could be waves of low pressure that develops on the front that will be moving slowly to our east at that time, and this could cause additional rain showers, and perhaps even mixed rain and snow as highs stay mainly in the 40’s. This much cooler weather looks like it may stick around for a while when it gets here, but after all it is the middle of fall.

So get ready for some big weather changes from this weekend into next week.

Mike