Saturday's Observations

I realize I forgot Friday's observations. Bear with me as I try to get into a routine of blogging. I'm new to this. Anyways...
Saturday. Today was beautiful. The skies were only partially overcast with appoximately 30% coverage by cirrus clouds. The temperature is currently 27 degrees F. There is no wind today which is a nice break for the end of the week. The Dew Point is at 20 degrees F. There is a slight chance for snow overnight however since the the sun is already down for some time and the temperature hasn't dropped too close to the dew point. So snow is unlikely in my forecast.

Thursday Observation

Today's skys have stratus clouds covering appoximately 40% of the sky. The bitter cold wind is blowing from the southwest at 15mph. The temperature as recorded at 1pm on the phillips weather station is -4.9 degree C = 23.18 degree F. As I predicted teh days are warm with cold winds and I predict the night will be cold again with lows in the single digits nearing 0 degrees F.

The surface map form the UNISYS weather is a map of the surface conditions and nicely show the wind direction and intensity.

Winter Storm from world perspective

the winter storm as reported by BBC from around the world
Major Winter Storm Video and Article
I found this to be an interesting perspective from across the world as they see the US weather as normal or abnormal.

Wednesday Observations

Today started out with a bitter wind and although the sun did come out the cold wind continued. The weather station on the top of Phillips Hall recorded the temperature at 7:35pm as -14.6 degrees C = 5.72 degrees F. with a wind at just 5mph. The cloud cover today was altostratus clouds covering about 80% of the sky. I predicted that the night will remain cold and that it will warm up slightly during the day tomorrow. The NWS radar looks clear so there is not prediction of percipatation. NWS radar

Tuesday Observations

As I predicted last night the snow fall had ceased by morning. Today's skys are filled will stratus cloud cover with a few altocumulus clouds. Overall the clouds covered 100% of the sky. A bitter North wind is blowing at approximately 15mph. Although the majority of the midlatitude cyclone has missed teh Eau Calire area in terms of snow fall the system will be drawing in some bitter cold weather from the trough of High pressure from Canada throughout the next few days. The temperature is currently -7.4 degrees C according to the weather station on top of Phillips Hall which converts to approximately 18.38 degrees F. The radar from the National Weather Service (NWS) shows that the system is to the south of Eau Claire bringing in winds from the north behind the system that is moving eastward. NWS radar I predict that tomorrow will be cloud covered and continue to drop in temperature.

Monday's Observations

I was forced to take the weekend off in order to put my room back together from ice dam water damages... so here is today's weather updates.
The weekend remained warm throughout the days on the weekend with a freezing rain that coated roads and cars on Saturday night.
Today I awoke to find it snowing, cold, and altostratus clouds covering approximately 100% of the visible sky. The snow has been consistently falling throughout the day a fairly steady rate. Thereby leaving behind several inches of snowfall covering the city. There is a wind of about 10mph coming from the Northeast. The temperature is currently 15 degree F. By looking at the current radar from Weather Underground I predict that the slow moving system will disappear from the Eau Claire area overnight meaning snowfall will cease by morning.