Warming Up!

Snowfall ranged from a few inches to places as far south as the Ozarks in Missouri and into southeast Kansas, to upwards of 8 inches in portions of Iowa to add to their already record snow depth and snowfall totals.  Now areas like Kansas City are creeping in on their records for snowfall with 23.3 inches thus far for the season compared to only 7.5 inches that is expected thus far.  Along with this snowfall that fell across the plains, arctic air dove into the plains states and didn't stop there.  Areas as far south as Georgia and Alabama saw accumulations of winter precipitation this past week, with record temperatures as far south as Florida where they reached into the 20s!

Our arctic high will begin to push east today, and a small ridge will actually work onto the plains states for this week.  This means warming temperatures for much of the plains, although they will still struggle due to the large amounts of snow that are on the ground.  Expect those areas that are on the southern periphery of the snowfall to quickly see their snow melt off early this week and aid in the melting of snow for places farther north.  The warmest day of the week will likely come on Wednesday when the center of the ridge is centered on the plains states.  Temperatures will range from the mid to upper 50s in western Kansas to near freezing across the state of Iowa.  The Kansas City area can expect to see a high near 40 on Wednesday, a full look at temperatures across the KC Metro for the week is below:

Today:  Highs in the mid 20s with lows tonight only dropping to near 20.
Monday:  Highs near freezing with overnight lows in the mid to upper teens.
Tuesday:  Mid 30s for highs and an overnight low in the lower 20s.
Wednesday:  High near 40 for the warmest day of the week, with a low into the mid 20s.
Thur - Sat.:  Highs in the upper 30s and perhaps slightly warmer; overnight lows from the lower 20s into the upper teens.