So how big a change is heading this way...take a look!

Those 30s will be here between 8-10 pm tonight as the front moves in a couple of hours before then. This front may be able to generate some showers with maybe a rumble of thunder in the area as it moves through. I'm not expecting a lot of rain out of this, and whatever does form will be flying at close to 40 MPH to the NE so the amounts will not be heavy.The front as of 1PM was between Lincoln NE and Beatrice, NE.

Aside from that all thoughts from yesterday's blog holds true. Colder tomorrow then some moderation TUE/WED followed by the next storm system THU into THU night...that one will need to be watched for some sort of wintry precipitation. Far too early to get into the details on that though from 5 days away. The GFS definitely has something cooking...while the latest EURO has a cold rain changing to some snow on the tail end...also the potential of some ice is showing up on both models as well. Not so much via the Canadian Model in terms of storm potential. So something to watch for the next several days.

Back to today. The record is 69 (1996). As of 1PM we're at 66. Yesterday I was hoping for some rather large breaks in the clouds by now. So far that's not happening. I noticed on the sounding this AM the the atmosphere was pretty juicy up through 6-7000 feet or so. The models are forecasting that layer to be drying out today, but even above that there is a lot of cloud cover streaming this way. So we'll see if we can get there or not. This AM I talked about the forecast this way...clouds and we're 65-70...Enough sun and we're 70-75. We may yet pop up there, but odds favor us to be closer to 70 as opposed to 75. There is also a bunch of wind out there...with gust to near 40 being reported.

Don't be surprised if we do get some drops of rain, that the rain brings down some dust from the SW plains area through TX...a lot wind goes all the way down there as well. So there may be a few more dirty cars tomorrow. Our temperatures are going to drop about 30 degrees in about 2-3 hours when the front comes through...



Joe