Should be warming up around the end of the week! Yayay!

As I've reported with my previous posts, temperatures around the Eau Claire area have been bone chilling. We did receive the 1 inch of light snowfall like we expected last night. However, the roads weren't too bad driving into school today.

On the flip side, the weather man is assuring us that it should be warming up around the end of the week!

What we have taking place is a ridge in the west and a trough in the east of the jet stream causing the northeast to be very cold and the south and west to be warm.

However, patterns will be changing as we move through the week because of a feature, known as an upper level low. Currently the low is located near the Gulf of Alaska, but will be moving to the southeast throughout the week.

 By the end of the week it will end up in the southwestern part of the U.S.

The movement of this low pressure cell will be associated with a dip in the jet stream in the west and a ridge in the jet stream in the east. This jet stream pattern is opposite of what we had at the beginning of the week.

This change in pattern will result in warmer conditions in the east and colder conditions in the west.







I am sooooo excited for it to warm up! Even if it's just a little bit!!