Thursday's Observation

Hey all! So there will most likely be more updates coming by the beginning of next week I hope to have added some data to the analysis page by Monday.

Anyways for today's depressing weather... Today I awoke to some large wet snowfall. Throguhout the day the snow stopped however the cold wet feeling remained. As for the temperature... it is currently 42.3 deg F with a windchill of 38.7 deg F. The dew point is at 37 deg F creating a relative humidity of 82% (hence the precipitation).  The winds earlier were from the Northwest but are now from the southwest at 8mph meaning that a high pressure dome is beginning to move into the region. The barometer is a 1012.0 which has been slowly rising throughout the day (also suggesting the higher pressure). The skies have been 100% covered with either nimbostratus or stratus clouds all day. This map below from Intellicast shows that there has been a slight trough in the jet stream causing some polar air to move into the region.

This map from the Weather Channel confirms the high pressure dome moving in.

Most people are predicting clear blue skies and some warming temperatures provided by the clockwise rotation of the high pressure dome. However as I see the small trough in the jet stream and I see the cold low pressure system over the northern rockies. I predict that here in the upper midwest we will see yet another mid latitiude cyclone bringing cold wet weather by Saturday morning.



Wednesday's Observations

So today is another cold spring day. As I was walking to school today it snowed for about 1 min. Today's temperature is 39 deg F with a windchill of 34 deg F. The dew point is 32 deg F creating a relative humidity of 76%. The barometer is at 1000.6 mb which is a little higher than yesterday. Teh wind is from the norht at 7 mph. The skies are 100% covered with stratus clouds.This suggests precipitation to continue. This map from the Weather Channel show that the mid latitude cyclone (with the occluded front) is dying out as it finishes moving across Michigan. this means that the high pressure dome is moving into the area form the west.



Graduation and this blog

I have recently been asked on weather I will continue this blog after my graduation in May. I've come to find out that many of you who read my blog from other countries would like to like to continue to hear about the weather in the Midwest. With that I am announcing that I will be doing a trial run of continuing this blog throughout the summer. I am enjoying the bloggin that I am currently doing and I would like to continue. The only catch is that I will be changing locations at the beginning of June. I will be reporting from Fargo, North Dakota. this city has most recently been voted "The Toughest Weather City in the U.S.". So I believe that this will bring some interesting new events to blog about :)

Updates!

Hello Everyone! I just wanted to let oyu know that I've been working on alot of updates lately so be sure to check it out. I have a few more pictures to add to the photos page and I hope to add some more explainations and examples in the data analysis page. So be sure to check out the new info!

Tuesday's Observations

Rain Rain go away! Oh well at least it held off and gave us a beautiful and sunny weekend! Obviously it is raining this morning here in Eau Claire. The temperature is currently 43.5 deg F with a windchill of 39 deg F. The dew point is 40.8 deg F creating a relative humidity in the air of 90%. This amount of moisture in the air explains why we currently have precipiation falling. The winds are from the northwest at 10mph. The barometer is at 997.8 mb which is much lower than the previous days. This indicates that we are in the middle of a low pressure system. The skies are 100% covered with nimbostratus clouds with a light to moderate drizzle of rain. This surface map from Unisys shows the perfect counter clockwise rotation of the low pressure system (the center is over the MN, IA, WI corners).

This map from the Weatehr channel shows the low pressure system and rainy weather that we are seeing in the midwest as well as the High pressure dome currently on the west coast. I predict that this High pressure dome will slowly make its way to the midwest providing some warmer weather by Thursday.