Back to local weather

It's been a few days since we've talked about the local weather, so lets take a look and see where we're at. Last time we talked about the Eau Claire area we were experiencing thick, heavy snowfall over the weekend. Roads weren't the worst, but not the best either. The last two days have been nice though. Yesterday's high was 33F, with no precipitation. Today's high is 34F, with a 30% chance of light snow fall, 7 mph wind speeads, and cloud cover.

By looking at this surface map and weather station information we can determine a lot of things about the daily weather pattern. If you focus you attention on Wisconsin you can see that there are no high or low air pressure masses or fronts. You can also see that the isobars are not very close together. All of these things suggest that fairly dull weather. No high or low air pressure masses mean temperatures will be fairly consistant throughout the day. This also affects wind speeds, because areas of high pressure go to areas of low pressure and this contributes in the creation of wind, which I mentioned is only at 7mph. Also, the weather stations suggest that wind speeds are slow, only a 5 knots or so which is consistent with 7 mph. They also tell us that there is a fair amount of cloud cover over our area right now.

By looking over to the south and east coast we can see that conditions there are not quite as stable as they are here.We can see a few low air pressure masses, along with a few cold fronts. By looking at the weather stations we can also see that there is a lot is a lot of cloud cover of the region right now.