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More brutal winter weather coming our way?

It looks to be brutal for around the first two weeks of January. The snow ratios will be crazy if it isn't to dry. The dew points will be critical. We here in Wichita might not get out of single Digits for two days or so. Oh well I love winter.
 
Mike Hollingshead said:
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Rather intense inversion at Sioux City tomorrow morning as the bottom falls out. Guessing some good sun mirage/distortions and green flash potential as it first crests.

http://beta.wxcaster.com/cgi-bin/parse_skewt_trace.cgi?model=NAM&fcsthr=012&STATIONID=kspw

East of Sioux City some. Just crazy how steep those are just off the ground.
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LOL...nice curvature on the lower troposphere profile.

Feel free to post record lows/temps/extremes on the record cold thread I started back in the summer: http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?t=21447
 
rdale said:
I'd be surprised if the brutal cold hung around that long... I think it'd be below normal by then, but not that bad.
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Tulsa certainly looks to be quite a bit colder Thursday/Friday than they are now. Looks like the coldest airmass in several years for us.
 
Temperatures today are barely reaching the teens today (expected at 10 degrees) with a low of -2 tonight. For the next 7 days we're not even going to see temperatures get even close to freezing. This is a heck of a cold period!
 
This has been the coldest winter I remember in years here in southeast KS. I live right on the border of MO and OK; December isn't usually too bad here. Average highs are in the low 40s. The last half of December was unreal. Our lowest average highs are the second and third week in January and are still right at 40. We've had two measurable snows already with three and four in the forecast. Snow cover on the ground for 10 days now. This is very abnormal for my locale. Not being much of a winter lover, I'm seriously ready for March!
 
I just checked our forecast, we won't break out of the low/mid 20's for at least a week, lows in the single digits each night.
 
We only made it to about 5 for a high today. Spencer Iowa hit -37 early this morning! Looks like we're heading for about -13 or so tonight here.

The midweek system may aide the next push of arctic air for late this week. If areas of the Midwest/Plains/MS Valley can get a few inches of snow, then temps could actually be even colder than the current bout of arctic air. Some of the models have showed the high pressure coming down out of Canada at 1050+mb Friday.
 
Seems to be the coldest winter I've remembered 'round these parts since I don't know when. Well, since early February, 1996, when we had 4-6 days of below freezing temperatures for highs. Not as cold as the extended period of below freezing highs we had in '83, but cold enough.

Usually, the temperatures here flip flop: warm one day, cold the next, back to warm. Not this winter. Temps have only been above normal (55 degrees) maybe twice; rest of the time, below.

Yeah, yeah, know you'd kill for 55 degrees. LOL!

By Thursday, the local NWO is advertising an arctic airmass to settle into the area, with highs below freezing, barely rising to the upper 30s by Saturday.

Ready for some warmer temps.
 
Despite what others have said, I think Thursday will be a bitterly cold day for many. The GFS has been pretty consistent with this.

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This is definitely the coldest winter (so far) that I can remember in northeast Oklahoma. Im not all that old lol but as far back as I can remember, ~10-15 years or so, this is about the coldest. We didnt make it out of the low 20's today and havent been above freezing for several days now and aren't predicted to get above freezing for at least the next week. And with predictions of more snow in the coming week, modifying this deep Arctic airmass that will be invading will be very slow. This is also the longest I have ever seen snow cover on the ground. I guess El Nino winters being warmer than average isn't a guarantee that it will be warm all winter, and there is still plenty of winter left to make for a warmer than average winter.
 
I can't complain about a high of -2 degrees today when MN/ND had it alot worse. I am used to this weather. Seems like every year Iowa get's a cold blast like this. It is interesting though to see it extend as far south as it has.
 
It snowed here in Wichita briefly late this evening and stopped maybe an hour ago. We got 1/4" give or take a fraction. Not quite the 1-3" forecasted but I'm fine with that. I'd like to see this dirty snow melt off for a fresh batch first.
 
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Some brutal from this morning. -23F along the Missouri River. Saw some -30s in nw IA. Looks like more to come, probably starting tomorrow morning. Thank god we're still ahead of the "cold plunge"...

I guess they just said the -20F at Epply was the coldest since 1996. And they are pretty much forecasting that tomorrow morning again as well as again Saturday morning, maybe Friday too.
 
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