Wednesday, April 2, 2014

It's getting a bit nippy outside

Current Conditions 7:00PM
Temperature - 41°F   
Feels Like - 34°F   
Dew point - 18°F   
Relative humidity - 39%  
Wind direction - E
Wind speed - 12 mph 
Barometric pressure - 1021.2 mb
Sky conditions - Overcast
Current conditions courtesy of NOAA

It started out as a nice warm day but now it's starting to show signs of bad weather moving in. With temps starting to drop it is easy to notice a difference in weather from earlier in the day and this large change in temp has made it feel much colder than it really is. Today I was out surveying the campus mall with a group from a field methods class and we all had numb hands afterwards because we didn't wear gloves due to it being a nice day until then. This shift in weather is due to the high pressure system which moved in during the day. yesterday it was sitting over Canada but now we are feeling the full force of it. This system is expected to bring with it a lot of nasty weather and maybe even some snow.
After checking the radar map provided by Wundermap I'm beginning to doubt that we will receive much precipitation from this system. There doesn't seem to be anything growing besides the blue patch in Minnesota but that appears to be staying to the north of the Chippewa Valley avoiding us altogether. For tomorrow I expect higher winds due to the high pressure and more clouds. Right now we have some stratucumulous clouds and I expect them to stick around until this system moves on. Temps should dip into the low 30s tomorrow as well with little precipitation.

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