Wednesday Evening Weather Update; December 9, 2020
Lincoln made it to another record temperatures Wednesday. The high was 66° matching the record for the date set in 1939.
We can say goodbye to the stretch of 60°s. While it isn’t going to get significantly colder in the next 24 hours, it is going to feel – and look – more like winter by week’s end.
TONIGHT: Mostly clear and cool. Lows will be in the low 30°s.
THURSDAY: Increasing clouds with skies becoming partly sunny by late morning. Temperatures will be about 15°-20° cooler than Wednesday. Highs will be in the middle 40°s to lower 50°s.
THURSDAY NIGHT: Cloudy skies. Lows will be in the low 30°s.
NORTHERN LIGHTS
Yesterday I mentioned a Geomagnetic Storm Watch being issued for the Earth by the Space Weather Prediction Center. The watch was issued because of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) and it was pointed towards Earth. It takes a few days for the solar wind from the CME to reach the planet. Tonight and Thursday night electrons and protons from the CME will hits the Earth’s atmosphere allowing many in the United States to see the Northern Lights.
The images represent the Aurora Forecast from the University of Alaska – Fairbanks. The green line shows where there is a low chance of seeing the Northern Lights. They yellow line indicates where there is a better chance. The red shows where the best chance of seeing the lights exists.
It is possible to see the lights in far northern Nebraska tonight.
Even better conditions exist in space for a large portion of the United States to see the lights Thursday night. A “better” chance exists from New York to Indianapolis to Lincoln to Portland, Oregon. Unfortunately for Nebraskans, we are going to be covered by clouds throughout the night.
