Forecast to wrap up January

Less than 10 days to finish off our first month of 2019. After such a warm start to the new year, things have flipped recently, and we expect the cold weather to continue to dominate for awhile. Sure, there may a mild day mixed in from time to time, but I think cold will continue to overwhelm many areas. We do have one warmer day coming up, and that will be Sunday when we could see some 50s.

Current snow cover across the US:

Most areas between central Kansas and Canada are covered in some amount of snow. In western Nebraska, it's not that deep, but it definitely gets deeper off to the north in the Dakotas. This is important because as the COLD air begins to build up this weekend, it's not going to modify very much as it moves south. Confidence is growing that some of the coldest air that we've seen this winter will be arriving early next week.

Shifting Pattern:

The upper level winds will continue to bring down a bunch of cold air for the next few weeks, but when the winds come out of the northwest, our chances at significant moisture are slim to none. 

So I think our February will start off chilly, but I don't think we will have any big storms now for awhile, and we may go 8-10 days into the month without much precipitation.