Eau Claire, WI. Today's temperature is 25.2 deg F with a windchill is 18.3 deg F. The dew point is 9 deg F creating a relative humidity of 50%. There is a 5 mph wind from the East. The barometer reads 1023.9 mb tooday. The sky is about 50% covered with a thin blanket of cirrostratus clouds. The surface map below from the Weather Channel shows that there is no impending front that is in the midwest which means that the skies will be calm for the next couple days. There is low pressure system currently over the northern Rockies.
Now for Fargo, ND we had nice weather the beginning of the week. Then on Tuesday morning I looked out the window and saw a thick blanket of stratus clouds with a wind from the Northeast. I predicited precipitation within the next 15-20 hours. Then on Tuesday night the winds picked up and it began to thunder and lightning. The rain began to fall then became freexing rain then became a sleeting mix of rain and snow. The precipitation turned to small graupel. Eventually the precipiation turned to just thick wet snow. The sky was still thundering and lightning. It was a crazy storm to watch. It left Fargo with 5.5 inches of thick wet snow with underlying ice. The road began to melt as the sun came out midday on Wednesday. Since then it has been colder clear skies with highs in the upper 20s.
I am heading back home today to Minnetonka, MN where they reportedly recieved anywhere between 5.5-7 inches of snow in the same storm system that we experienced.
I will write again this weekend as my spring break wraps up and I return to Eau Claire on Sunday afternoon. For now I say thank you to all of my blog viewers. I'm still gaining views from around the world and it inspires me to write more!
