Thursday and Friday Observations

Yesterday (Thursday) was my 22nd Birthday! Woot! The weather was awesoem so I wore a dress. The temperature was 58.5 deg F with a windchill of 54.5 deg F. The dewpoint was 25.3 deg F creating a relative humidty of 28%. The wind was fromt he Southeast at 3 mph. The sky was only 25% covered with some high cirrus clouds. The jet stream was mostly normal with zonal pattern.

Today temperature is currently 42.3 deg F with a windchill of 39.6 deg F. The dew point is 34.3 deg F creating a relative humidity of 73%. The wind is from the Northeast at 5mph. The barometer is at 1016.9 mb which has been slowly rising over the past couple of days. The skies are 40% covered with some cirrostratus clouds. The surface station map from Unisys shows that we are very close to the center of the higher pressure system due to the clockwise motion of the wind directions centered over central Minnesota.

Additonally the map below from the Weather Channel shows that there is a warm front approaching fromt eh southwest. This will help continue our warmer weather trends.

I predict temperatures in the high 50s to low 60s today and tomorrow as we continue our warming trend, with partly cloudy to clear skies.