Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Get ready for some serious cold

Okay, I guess it's not "serious cold" but it's seriously colder than what we're used to. Right?

Wind chills will dip into the 30s tonight and stay in the 40s all day Wednesday. I sometimes get E-Mails saying "You didn't forecast this." Well, hear ye! It's going to feel COLD on Wednesday.

By the time we clear the skies out Thursday night, we'll be watching for some frost potential. Frost is only allowed to form if skies are clear at night.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is this the type of cold that can cause a Seinfeld type of shrinkage?

Anonymous said...

Eric, your sense of humor is excellent, I really enjoy it. Your co-workers must enjoy you too!! I'm pretty happy about the cold weather, the bugs(box elders,asian beetles,mosquitos etc.) stay away. A thunderstorm for yesterday? We got rain in the middle of the day and it was pleasant. Thanx for you or Adam being wrong on that.

Anonymous said...

I just haven't even gotten in the mood for fall yet, let alone winter.

I like a long spring and a long fall, not these sudden changes where its summer one day and winter the next. Same in the spring, give me lots of nice long slowly warming days, not freezing weather right up until you're baking in the summer sun. Wasn't last winter like that too? I remember running the furnace in May this year, something I almost never do.

Anonymous said...

same here. it was clear thru noon, then clouded up, had that band of rain come thru, then it cleared up again, then about 3:35 p.m. had a brief but very torrential downpour. it literally almost caused minor flooding here in loves park. and i looked at the radar and the rain just popped up right over loves park. this was yesterday by the way.

tony

Adam Painter said...

Jessica, not that it matters at this point, but you might have missed the Sunday night/Monday morning forecast. I worked the always fun "swing shift" in which I went on-air Sunday night after the Bears game at 11pm and then turned around to work Monday morning. In both newscasts rain was in the forecast as I mentioned a few afternoon showers and storms.

Eric and I always keep our forecast worksheets from every shift we work, which makes it easy to go back and verify a forecast. I will be the first to admit when I'm wrong, but this was not the case on Monday.

Adam Painter said...

This Weather Blog certainly will air out the past weather forecasts since everything is archived. For Monday's forecast scroll down the page to the my posting titled "Transition Time" where I detailed the rain chances for the beginning of the work week.

Eric Sorensen said...

jessica: You got that right! The boxelders are creeping me out. LOL

Adam: Thanks for clarifying. One thing about the blog...we put our jobs on the line by posting so much information...and since all of it is archived, people have complete access to it!

That's part of the fun of bloggin'!