Monday, March 16th, 2015, 1:45 pm
Temperature: 60 F
Feels like: 60 F
Wind: E 5 mph
Humidity: 50%
Pressure: 29.79 in

Today is a relatively nice day outside although there is cloud cover. Currently there is stratocumulus clouds in the sky with potentially them turning into nimbostratus clouds since it looks like there is precipitation on the horizon. The wind is currently coming form the east, and you will see that Eau Claire seems to be at the center of the winds as all of them are rotating over the Chippewa Valley area. We won't experience this rain for a few hours still if we do at all, seeing that the rain is still to the north, but is being pushed this direction as northern Wisconsin is experiencing northwest winds.

This is the radar of the current surface data for the midwest. You can see a large stationary front stretching from Idaho into Wisconsin, with a cold front coming down from the north into Michigan. Behind that cold front you can see the precipitation that I was talking about being pushed down from Canada by that northwestern wind. You can see a low front just on the western edge of Wisconsin, this is what is causing for the rotating winds over the Eau Claire area.

This surface data map shows a better example of the rotating winds over the area. You can also see the cloud cover is at max from the little bubbles being filled in completely. You can also see that temperatures are dropping a lot in the North Dakota area as we are coming out of the omega high that has been giving us such warm weather. You can expect these changes to hit our area as temperatures will drop all week back to the normal average for this time of year. 

This final picture is of the ballon sounding from the Minneapolis station. Judging from the LI and KI index, the area is very stable and did not experience the precipitation and rain clouds that it looks like we are going to get this afternoon. Both the LI and KI indexes are stable and from the probes on the right side you can see that the wind direction is mostly from the west. This would help to push those rain clouds into Wisconsin seeing how the clouds are coming down directly from Canada.