Wednesday, January 7, 2009

A thin layer of ice: As expected we are waking up to a layer of ice which is making things rather slippery. It doesn't look to be improving much with temperatures not getting above freezing anytime soon.

Colder and breezy: A change in pressure and a tighter gradient will whip up winds over the next 36 hours.
Here is what I am referring too with a tight gradient. The lines of equal pressure or 'isobars' are tightly packed on this surface map. This gives us an indication that we will see gusty winds with lower pressure. This windy situation will continue over the next 36 hours.

Looking ahead. Take a look at next week! Low pressure moves in and opens the gateway for some bitterly cold air. You can see the 850 mb temperature drops to -20. If this holds up with could be looking at single digit highs or maybe even colder. We need to keep looking at this as it looks like it could be a arctic outbreak for our region.

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