The cold reality: Temperatures will dive today as a gateway to the north has been opened up overnight because of a weather system that moved through the area yesterday. 850 mb temperatures here (in the purple color) are sitting at -16 Celsius this morning. That's really cold!







The weekend: A large scale weather system is still on track to move into our area by late Sunday.




You can see the warmer air still ahead of this system with temperatures in the 40s and 50s. Also some very breezy conditions as those isobars are tightly packed together here. By early Monday this system is pushed north but does it's job by opening the gateway to colder air from the north by late in the day. You can see the core of the coldest air dumping across the plains.
Fortunately the coldest air retreats and we are going to see moderately colder air across the region.