I must start today’s write-up with a glance at the formation of the very rare Hurricane Alex, the first January Atlantic Hurricane to form in 78 years. The system is now post tropical and heading towards Greenland so no impact to US but a meteorological rarity which needed to be shown. It had wind and rain impacts through the Azores a coupled of days ago.
Satellite imagery.
It continues to be a busy US weather pattern with severe weather over Florida yesterday while the next wave of bitter arctic air and stronger than last weekend is now dropping into the Northern Plains, Upper Midwest.
The surface low spinning over the Carolinas was responsible for the severe weather over Florida and heavy rain over the Carolinas.
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TOP IMAGE CREDIT: ANDY FOWLER
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Strong storms pushed through central Florida yesterday.
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Scene over Downtown Orlando yesterday.
The Southeast low is now running up the coast bringing wind and rain and possibly some backside snow also note the system bringing a rain, ice and snow mix through the Southern Plains this morning.
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Then another low which comes up from the Gulf and this will bring back the severe weather threat across north and central Florida tonight and tomorrow with heavy, flooding rains for the Southeast.
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Meanwhile, as that next low pushes across Florida, the core of the next arctic air mass progresses south through the Midwest this weekend and is sure to deliver the coldest air of the winter from Minneapolis through Chicago to Indianapolis surpassing levels seen last weekend.
Credit: Barry Butler
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Wind chills were as low as -50 in North Dakota this morning.
A frigid scene from Duluth and a steaming Lake Superior this morning.
With widespread northern snow cover and lower thicknesses, temps may struggle to get above 0 for a daytime high in Chicago while Minneapolis may hold at a frigid -4 or 5 throughout Sunday PM.
Sun AM
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Sun PM
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Forecast highs from weather.com
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Mon AM
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Brutal wind chills Sunday morning.
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80 hours at or below 0F in Minneapolis.
Moisture rich pattern continues to hit the West Coast and help the drought.
total precipitation through next 10 days
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total snowfall
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Credit: Sean Bennett
See today’s video for the discussion.
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