Well it’s quite the comedown from yesterday’s 63° high. we missed tying a record in KC by 3°, but St Joseph tied their record high of 63° originally set back in 1914.Let’s though use a little perspective here, today’s weather is just a return to seasonable weather around these parts with highs in the 30s…chillier for sure but again remember the average high for this date is 38°. We’ll be a few degrees below average as far as that goes today but still well within the realm of average January cold.

Boy try and take a 1/2 day from looking at weather data and trying to recover from a cold which isn’t getting better yet, and everything goes haywire.

The data for the last 18 hours has slowly been pulling our possible snow-maker farther and farther to the NW. This has resulted in some rather wholesale changes tot he forecast which MT updated last night and I’ll continue to fine tune as the afternoon moves along. Look for another blog update around 2PM or so, and then expended weathercasts during our evening news at 5PM and then later tonight (perhaps after the snow starts winding down) after the football game…probably around 10:30 or 11PM.

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New data NOT very exciting for a lot of an accumulation. We are on the far NW side of this “storm” so lets track it this afternoon.

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Well if local meteorologists learned one lesson this week, if they didn’t know it already, when the models are so split and divergent for a forecast from about 5 days away…odds favor that the EURO model will do the superior job. It took the GFS to the woodshed concerning the evolution of the storm for the middle part of next week and now that the other longer-range models have figured things out (sort of) everybody is playing nice again.