Based on 7 o’clock observations, the much advertised arctic cold front was just east of Springfield and Springfield (the ones in both Illinois and Missouri) to Fayetteville, Ark., and down into Texas.
Moving SE
All of the lightning in the USA is lined up near that front from NE Texas, across SE Oklahoma, Extreme NW Arkansas, through SW and Central Missouri into NW Illinois.
SPOT REPORTS AT 7 PM CST
52 and windy at DFW Airport (high today was 80)
25 in Amarillo, wind north 25
26 in Oklahoma City, wind north 26
26 in Kansas City
66 in St. Louis (east of the front)
68 in Little Rock
74 in Fort Smth, Ark., while 100 miles to the west it was 34
9 in Denver
6 in Laramie, Wyo. (Home of the University of Wyoming–Pat Dye once coached there)
HIGHS TODAY
80 at Dallas-Fort Worth
83 in Mineral Wells (west of Fort Worth)
86 at McAllen, Tex.
90 at Laredo
RANDOM NOTES
10 below zero this morning at Bryce Canyon, Utah
11 below at Silver Lake/Brighton, Utah, 26 inches of snow
41 inches of snow at Alta, Utah
Matt Marshall lives at Layton, Utah between Ogden and Salt Lake. He is a regular reader of 33/40 weather stories. Here is an email from him within the hour:
You may not have seen the comment I put on the blog this morning. Salt
Lake City hit a record low for the date of 4 degrees last night. The
valley didn’t get much snow until this morning when a good lake effect
band got going. The Salt Lake valley got up to 8″ of fluff. Up in
Layton, we didn’t get much…maybe 2″. They missed it, but I guess it
goes to show that snow forecasting is difficult, even in an area like
this. They didn’t miss it in the mountains, though. Alta received 38″
since Monday morning.
The high at our house today was 23, and they are forecasting a low of 0
to 5 above tonight.
ALABAMA NOW (7:25 pm)
A north-south line of light to moderate showers extended from south and SW of Montgomery northward through West Coosa County into West Talladega County. Moving almost due north. Mild across the state this evening. A few highs this afternoon:
79 in Dothan
74 in Anniston
77 in Mobile
72 inTuscaloosa
