The relentless September-like heat is being wiped out west to east and replaced with late November conditions. Many sites have went from 75F to as much as 85F only to experience snow within 24 hours. If your still ahead of the front, well enjoy the warmth!

Wind blowing hard and snow falling hard this morning.

Sioux Falls, SD

Mitchell, SD

Madison, MN

Midwest, Eastern warmth living on borrowed time.

From weather.com

Record Highs Since Tuesday
Record highs were set Tuesday in:
Corpus Christi, Texas (90 degrees)
Tucson, Arizona (89 degrees)
San Angelo, Texas (85 degrees)
Amarillo, Texas (82 degrees)
Pueblo, Colorado (81 degrees)
Garden City, Kansas (80 degrees)
Wichita, Kansas (77 degrees)
Salt Lake City, Utah (73 degrees)
Reno, Nevada (72 degrees)
Riverton, Wyoming (68 degrees).
Record highs were set Wednesday in:
Dodge City, Kansas (87 degrees)
Garden City, Kansas (87 degrees)
San Angelo, Texas (84 degrees)
Amarillo, Texas (83 degrees)
Joplin, Missouri (82 degrees)
Goodland, Kansas (82 degrees)
Denver (80 degrees) – also ties all-time warmest November temperature
Topeka, Kansas (80 degrees)
Hastings, Nebraska (78 degrees)
Springfield, Missouri (77 degrees)
Cheyenne, Wyoming (75 degrees) – also warmest so late in the year (old record: 75 degrees on Nov. 5, 1981)
Record highs were set Thursday in:
St. Louis (83 degrees)
Galveston, Texas (83 degrees)
Jackson, Mississippi (83 degrees)
Tupelo, Mississippi (82 degrees)
Fort Smith, Arkansas (82 degrees)
Columbia, Missouri (80 degrees)
Springfield, Missouri (79 degrees)
Joplin, Missouri (79 degrees)
Springfield, Illinois (79 degrees)
Fayetteville, Arkansas (78 degrees)
Wichita, Kansas (77 degrees)
Topeka, Kansas (77 degrees)
Kansas City, Missouri (76 degrees)
Moline, Illinois (76 degrees)
Crossville, Tennessee (75 degrees)

Why Has it Been So Warm?

Meteorologist Jonathan Belles wrote an earlier column explaining why the weather over the Lower 48 states has been so “quiet” recently. Essentially, the reason for the lull in stormy weather over the U.S. is also the reason for the recent record warmth. Namely, the north Pacific and Gulf of Alaska have been even stormier than their typical reputation.

This is the jet-stream pattern responsible for the recent record warmth in the northern tier of states and Canada.

Anchored in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, the jet stream’s southward plunge, or trough, forces a broad area of higher pressure aloft, known as a ridge, downstream over western Canada and the northern U.S. Not only does that pump warmer air northward, but winds flowing down the slopes of the Rockies also further warm the air to the east of the mountains.
According to NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, among reporting stations with at least a 30-year period of record, there have been 47 daily record highs tied or broken for every record low over the last month or so.
For monthly records, the ratio is an even more astounding 120 warm records for every cold record.
Daily and Monthly U.S. Warm, Cold Records Tied or Broken in the Last 30 Days
As of Nov. 10, 2016 (Source: NOAA/NCEI)

Here are some of the record-warm highlights since last Tuesday:
All-time November record highs were set Nov. 8 in both Bellingham, Washington (73 degrees), and Vancouver, British Columbia (about 67 degrees).
Seattle hit 70 degrees on Nov. 8. The previous latest-in-season 70-degree day in the Emerald City was Nov. 4, 1949 and 1980.
Roughly four dozen daily record highs were set Nov. 8 in western Canada alone, some topping the previous daily record by up to 9 degrees Celsius.
Bismarck, North Dakota, reached 75 degrees on Nov. 9, their warmest so late in the season.
International Falls, Minnesota – the self-proclaimed “Icebox of the Nation” – set daily record highs three of four days from Nov. 6-9, reaching 71 degrees on Nov. 7, or roughly the average Labor Day high.
Five different locations in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula topped 70 degrees on Nov. 10, including a high of 73 degrees in Stonington.
Another 29 daily record highs were set in Canada on Nov. 11, including Banff, which reached 60 degrees (15.6 degrees Celsius). Churchill, Manitoba, and Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories both almost reached 40 degrees (4.2 degrees Celsius).
International Falls, Minnesota, set a daily record of 63 degrees on Nov. 13. This was also the seventh day with temperatures 60 degrees or higher in the city this November, exceeding 1981 for the most number of days that has happened in the month of November.
Grand Forks, North Dakota, set a daily record high of 65 degrees on Nov. 13. Only one other day has been warmer there this late in November – a 66-degree reading on Nov. 15, 1939.

Heavy snow, blustery conditions caused issues throughout the Mountain West yesterday and as the circulation strengthens over the open Plains, blizzard conditions are now developing over the Dakotas and Minnesota.

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See this morning’s video.

Featured Image Credit: Samantha @FamilyFirst04

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