What in the world is this...

Our forecast for the end of this week is pretty strange when you get down to it. It has felt weird the last couple of days forecasting 70 degree weather, knowing that we are only turning the calendar into February.

However, look at some of these stats I dug up. Even if we get to 70° this weekend, it won't break the record for "earliest 70 of the year". Most of the state has had 70s in early January before, so it's not unheard of to see them in early February. 

But the pattern is about to completely get wild on us with respect to temperatures. It's going to be ridiculously warm this weekend, followed by an almost as dramatic DROP coming next week with Arctic air plunging south. 

Kansas and many surrounding areas will be well above normal. Just look at the map below and all of that red indicates the above normal weather. Dark shades of red are temperatures that will be nearly 20° above normal, which will spread all the way into southern Canada. Or is that just Chiefs red we are seeing?  :-)

Weekend - near record highs Sunday:

Just look at some of the numbers we will be challenging as we head toward the end of the weekend. 

ARCTIC AIR WATCH - next week:

A strong front will be surging through Monday afternoon and into the night. Following the front, temperatures will take a nose dive and highs will slip back to the 20s and 30s. That means, we will go back below normal for early February. It's way too early to speculate on snow amounts or exact locations, but there's a chance for some snow to return to northern Kansas by Tuesday. When air gets as cold as it will be next week, there won't be near as much moisture content to the snow. But we will continue to see how all of this comes together AFTER an amazing weekend coming up.