Around the Quad Cities, low temperatures are well below zero this week.
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00:00 That is a cold scene there in Chicago.
00:03 So how are we doing with these temperatures right now?
00:05 We're at zero on the nose into Omaha, Nebraska,
00:08 10 in Chicago, and heading south,
00:10 we're still at freezing in Jackson,
00:12 30 degrees right now into Dallas.
00:14 So we had a huge change.
00:15 Yesterday we got a reprieve from the cold in Texas,
00:18 but now that cold air has just blitzed on south
00:21 and we're back into it as if there was ever any question.
00:24 Nashville, 19 degrees here in the evening.
00:26 Atlanta, you'll drop down to around 19 later tonight,
00:28 but it's certainly cold out there.
00:30 And regarding the lakes there,
00:31 you can see a little more ice coverage as it's forming
00:34 on the shallow end of Lake Erie and so forth.
00:36 So tonight, how low do we go?
00:39 Well, the area that'll likely see record breaking cold,
00:42 and this is with respect to the records
00:44 for this calendar day in history,
00:47 will be Sioux City, Iowa, 22 below zero,
00:49 old record 19 from 1970.
00:51 We should also break the record by three degrees in Lincoln.
00:53 So a couple of records very likely to be broken.
00:56 Old record in Lincoln was from 1888.
00:58 That's impressive, breaking a record
01:00 that's almost 140 years old.
01:02 Impressive stuff.
01:03 Grand Island, Nebraska, to break a record from 1962.
01:06 Hastings will probably tie the record there from 1985.
01:09 And we may be a little shy there in Topeka,
01:12 the records from 1985, 12 below zero.
01:14 So it's gonna be really cold out there.
01:16 And the actual weather, real field temperatures here
01:19 will be in the 20s to 30s below zero,
01:23 about 25 below zero in Des Moines.
01:24 So bundle up out there.
01:25 And even in places near, say, Charlotte, North Carolina,
01:28 it'll feel like the single digits there early in the morning.
01:30 It's really cold out there.
01:32 Saturday, the cold plunges all the way down
01:34 to the Southeast Coast, unusually cold out there.
01:37 So how are we doing with our high temperature forecast
01:39 tomorrow?
01:40 You're high in Omaha, two below zero.
01:42 That's your high tomorrow, really cold.
01:44 Our friend Eli Bray was out with the camera
01:46 there in Churchill, Tennessee.
01:47 He's had a snowy week, two rounds of it,
01:49 early and late in the week.
01:50 And well, Saturday up to the north,
01:53 we're looking at highs around one in Sioux Falls,
01:55 10 in Duluth, 12 in Madison.
01:56 So a little bit of progress there.
01:58 And then Sunday morning, very cold still,
02:00 still 20s below zero near the Quad Cities
02:03 and into areas like Philadelphia, New York City.
02:06 We're looking at single digits for the actual weather,
02:07 real field temperature early in the morning.
02:10 And overall, one big storyline for early next week,
02:13 a big warming trend, but we pay for it up front.
02:16 We got the ice zone, even down into the Southern Plains.
02:19 So yes, there's a warming trend,
02:20 but it's not gonna be all that easy
02:22 with significant ice in the forecast for the Ozarks
02:24 and gradually we'll turn warmer behind that,
02:27 but there'll be another stripe of snow
02:28 even in the Northern part of the Northeast with that warmup.