Cold Wins!

Cold Wins: HIGH YESTERDAY / 37
LOW LAST NIGHT / 22

Will the Cold Win Out?

As always seems to be the case, the Midsouth is the dividing line between the cold air and the warm (relatively speaking) gulf air. Although the cold front that swept through over the weekend made it to the Gulf Coast, it has began to wave back north, bringing with it copius amounts of moisture. Upper level impulses will move along the front causing precipitation. It remains to be seen if the temps will rebound enough today to stay above freezing tonight.
Many times when you have a setup like this, temps will actually warm as the atmosphere moistens up.

Yesterday's high was 35 and the overnight low 31.

I want to give a "shout-out " to Dave and Tina in Brazil for keeping up the with the weather in the Midsouth.

You are now entering the "quasi" zonal zone!

This upcoming week the Midsouth will be the battleground between the frigid and warm air masses. Although our weather pattern is trying to go zonal (which means weather patterns are generally moving from west to east), the warm air to our south will be over running the cold air to the north, making for some potential yucky weather for those of is in the Midsouth. Even severe weather cannot be totally ruled out late next week.

How cold will it get?

The Artic invasion is about to begin! Two cold fronts are forecast to bring the coldest air of the season thus far to the lower forty-eight. It looks as though the coldest of the air will concentrated in the upper midwest and northeast parts of the country. The thing about some of the computer models used to forecast weather is that they have a hard time handling real cold temps so it will be interesting to see how close to actuality they are this time around.
Yesterdays high was 51 and our overnight low was 29.