Arctic Blast Nearing Its End?!

 It was an unbelievably cold start to this Tuesday, with temperatures around -15° and wind chills around -30°!  Definitely want to limit your time outside this morning as those wind chills will be around -20° the rest of the morning.  Frostbite can occur in less than 30 minutes when wind chills are this cold.

Wind Chill Warnings are in effect for Winnebago, Stephenson, Jo Daviess, Carroll, Whiteside, Ogle, Lee, and DeKalb counties.  Wind Chill Advisories in effect for southern Wisconsin along with Boone and McHenry counties.  These will all be in effect until noon, afterwards seeing wind chills around -8° for the afternoon.


Amidst the frigid weather, we do get to see lots of sunshine today, so that should help brighten your day and make those temperatures more manageable. 

Once we get into the evening we'll start to see cloud cover building up around 7pm.  This taking place ahead of a cold front that'll move into our area around midnight and bring us some light snow.  We'll keep that light snow until a little after 6am tomorrow morning, but the accumulations will be very small; one-tenth of an inch at most.

After that front moves out Wednesday morning, another high pressure system will move down to keep us in the arctic cold for the rest of the work week.  We can expect our highs to remain in the single digits, and most of our overnights to continue being in the negatives.


However, we do have a warmup that'll be occurring once we get into the weekend, as winds will start shifting out of the south during Saturday.  This will allow warm air to start filtering back into our area, and gradually warm us up as we go through the weekend. 

We'll see sunshine and temperatures around 15° Saturday afternoon, with temperatures getting near 30° on Sunday!  Even though it does come with a wintry mix Sunday afternoon, the 30° will be a nice relief for most of us.

However, do still continue to keep an extra eye on your tire pressure as we're not out of the woods yet.  The arctic air is still here, which means that your tire pressure is still going down faster than usual, so do continue to be aware of that for the next few days until the temperatures start to warm up again.