A cold, blustery Friday

With a southerly flow, and, lacking a real blocking high to the north, we should see temps rise above freezing gradually from Saturday night so any icing will shift to rain overnight, especially closer to the coast. The temperature will start going up late Friday night.

Sunday looks much milder with highs near 50 and showers/rain. But, adding additional wind chills Saturday. Highs will reach the low to mid 20s, and some scattered snow showers are possible later in the night, as the first of two cold fronts moves through.

Meteorologist Mark Larson says another in a series of strong cold fronts will pass through Kansas again Wednesday, bringing us a re-enforcing shot of Arctic air, so our cold spell will continue. The wind won’t relax much during the day and temperatures will feel as warm as the 30s. Monday will be mostly sunny, breezy and cold.

On Saturday night, the second wave of frigid air arrives, and the air temperatures could drop to minus-20 with wind chills of minus-30 to minus-35.

The high pressure center driving this cold is transient, and it will slide east across the state on Friday.

“This is well below normal even for those areas of the country that are kind of used to cold weather”, Burke said.

Snow breaks out after midnight early Saturday morning, and several inches are expected. Thursday evening will be terrible, with forecasters calling for a low of 15, made worse by wind chill values in the single digits.

We’ll be waking up to a very white landscape Saturday morning! Temperatures will be dropping very quickly, we will set our high temperature Saturday very early in the morning. The Christmas weekend forecast is highly uncertain and subject to significant changes depending upon how the weather systems move between now and then. It stays bitterly cold through the day with highs near 20, sunshine and diminishing winds.