Wednesday April 15th, 2015, 5:15 pm
Temperature: 66 F
Feels like: 66 F
Wind: SSE 14 mph
Humidity: 16%
Pressure: 30.19 in

Today has been another great day on the Eau Claire campus. The sun was out the birds were chirping and the wind was coming from the south. We did see some stratus clouds move into the area later in the afternoon that did block out the sun as the evening progressed. Looking ahead we can expect the temperatures to remain the same and maybe even a little higher the rest of the week while there is a potential of a possible slight cool down into the weekend.

The above image is of the current surface radar. You can see currently to our west that there is a cold front and stationary front that will be moving our way. There is also a ridge in the wind as it moves vertically along the front lines to the east and drops from the north to the south on the western side of the fronts. 

You can see from this image that the fronts run vertically through North and South Dakota. Behind the fronts to the west is a low pressure system that has the potential for storms to move into the area through the weekend. 

This is the upper air sounding from the Minneapolis weather station. Based on the LI and KI index's the air is stable and doesn't have much potential looking at storms currently. Looking on the right side of the Stuve diagram you can see how the wind shifts direction from the south east to the west as the weather balloon climbed higher into the atmosphere. 

This image is from Accuweather. It helps to show the overall outlook of the U.S. currently and shows that the jet stream is sitting relatively high across Canada. We can expect mild temperatures to remain throughout the week while the south is expecting precipitation. 

This image helps to show the ridge I was talking about across the Dakota's. You can see to the eastern part of the fronts how the winds are being swept from the south and east northward, while the winds to the western side of the front are being pushed down from the north. With the winds coming from the north on the western side, we can expect temperatures to drop some moving into the weekend with the potential of precipitation.