Short cold stretch, warming by Sunday

Snow then cold last week. Snow then cold this week, too. Most of the area saw about 1-3″ of snow after calming from the snow squalls. That was the first time the National Weather Service of Omaha had ever issued a snow squall warning. Rare!

Temperatures so far Friday morning have been hovering a few degrees below zero, with wind chills about 20 to 25 below. Wind chills not expected to improve all that much later today, with a northwest wind at about 10-15 mph and gusts around 25 mph.

There is a Wind Chill Advisory for Nebraska currently in effect until noon Friday. Highs will only be in the single digits for today and looking ahead at Saturday.

And the transition into Saturday will be a brutally cold one. Another Wind Chill Advisory across Nebraska will be in place overnight into Saturday morning for wind chills as low as 30-35 below.

Across southeast Nebraska although there won’t be a whole lot of wind, it won’t take much to have wind chills about 25 to 35 below zero.

Happy to say this is a short-lived stretch of cold weather. We will be much warmer by Sunday with highs in the upper 20s, then back to the 30s (ABOVE zero) for highs all next week – melting!

Meteorologist Jessica Blum 
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