Chilly and breezy Monday, but winter feels by the end of this holiday week

Weekend temperatures in Lincoln were quite comfortable, especially talking about this past Saturday. Highs were in the lower 60s!

But temperatures will continue to get a lot colder through the course of this holiday week. A cold front did come through Sunday, leaving us with a colder air mass for Monday.

Monday will start quite cold with a good breeze out of the northwest – noticeably cooler compared to Sunday. Prepare for wind chills in the teens for the morning commute today.

The wind out of the northwest will produce a chilly feeling especially during the morning hours before backing off this evening.

The warmest day of the upcoming week will be on Tuesday with some increasing cloud cover. That’s also the only day we’ll have a wind direction out of the south.

After that, it starts to look and feel more like winter as we get closer to Thanksgiving and eventually December.

Holiday travel across much of the Midwest looks pretty easy-going, including here in Nebraska. There will be a small disturbance that produces a light wintry mix of rain/snow across southwest Nebraska late Tuesday night into early Wednesday, but those hours don’t look to impact travel much.

Elsewhere, there’ll be snow in the mountains and across eastern Colorado Wednesday before that system will bring rain toward St. Louis and southern Illinois Wednesday evening.

And the cold air will be in place for the end of the month into early December. Eastern Nebraska is in some darker blue shades (below) with a decent chance to see below normal temperatures during the timeframe of November 30th to December 4th.

The only other signal for more precipitation may be some very light snow possible by Saturday.

Meteorologist Jessica Blum 
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