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Above Average Temperatures for Most Today; Winter Weather Returns to the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes

Well above average temperatures are forecast today into Wednesday over most of the lower 48 states away from the Gulf Coast. A storm system passing across southern Canada will bring a wintry mix to the upper Great Lakes today. A trailing cold front will then bring the wintry mix from the central Appalachians through the Northeast U.S. Wednesday and Thursday. Read More >

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Blanchard, D. O., 2008: Interactions between a Supercell and a Quasi-Stationary Frontal Boundary. Mon. Wea. Rev.136, 5199–5210, https://doi.org/10.1175/2008MWR2437.1.

Blanchard, D. O., 2011: Supercells in Environments with Atypical Hodographs. Wea. Forecasting26, 1075–1083, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-11-00012.1.

Blanchard, D. O., 2013: A Comparison of Wind Speed and Forest Damage Associated with Tornadoes in Northern Arizona. Wea. Forecasting28, 408–417, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-12-00046.1.

Klimowski, B. A., M. R. Hjelmfelt, and M. J. Bunkers, 2004: Radar Observations of the Early Evolution of Bow Echoes. Wea. Forecasting19, 727–734, https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0727:ROOTEE>2.0.CO;2.