Arctic Front Ends Our Brief Fling With Spring

Spring-like highs in the 60’s reached as far north as Thedford today, with Imperial reaching a balmy 67 and North Platte getting to 64 before an arctic front moved through this afternoon and temperatures began to fall. In addition, a gusty northerly breeze up and over 30mph also begin to add a chill to the air, and this will continue overnight as lows drop to near 20 with mostly cloudy skies.

Saturday will be a much colder day as an arctic high sinks southeastward into North Dakota and continues to drill colder air into the region, and with lots of clouds and winds that could gust to 25mph, it will feel even colder. There could even be a snow flurry very late in the day, especially over southwestern parts of Greater Nebraska.

But as a disturbance drops southeastward into western Nebraska Saturday night and Sunday, some snow showers could develop, mainly over southwestern areas from about Lexington to North Platte to Oshkosh. There could even be some light accumulations of an inch or so as lows drop into the teens, so some possible slippery conditions might develop so please stay tunes to later forecasts.

The snow showers and flurries could continue into at least the morning hours on Sunday, but skies should remain mostly cloudy with highs only reaching the upper 20 to low 30’s in most areas.

We should see more sunshine early next week, but temperatures will remain mainly in the chilly 30’s for highs, with lows falling as low as the single digits in some areas. But as the arctic high moves to the south and east and away from Greater Nebraska, a southerly flow should allow temperatures to moderate into the 40’s for the middle to latter part of next week, along with sunshine.

More colder air may be waiting in the wings for next weekend, but right now no truly frigid temperatures are in sight.

Enjoy the weekend!

Mike