It has been a crazy weekend for weather in the midwest! Towards the end of last week the temperatures were down in the 40s, then it jumped yesterday to the 60-70 range, and it was back down to 35 degrees and snowing this morning!! Because of all of these cold and warm fronts moving through, the air has been mixing a lot causing conditions to be unstable. Yesterday we spent most of the day under a tornado watch-this is because since the cold air was coming in it was displacing the warm air which was causing it to mix and form a mid latitude cyclone-which can result in a tornado. Luckily, we didn't have any tornadoes-but we did experience off and on rain and some ferocious looking Cumulus clouds!
Today the day began cloudy and it was lightly snowing! We had winds coming from the northwest at about 10-15mph and the atmosphere was conditionally unstable. By looking at the sky I would have predicted it to rain through out the day, but after looking at a map you can see that since the cold front has passed it is not likely to precipitate because we are on the backside of the storm.
MONDAY MORNING STABILITY
MONDAY EVENING
TUESDAY MORNING
The conditions right now are stable, no clouds, no wind, moderate temperature. It appears as though it will stay this way throughout the day as there is a stable front that has formed to our west-just to the northeast of the Rocky Mountains.
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