Tuesday May 5th, 2015, 6 pm
Temperature: 67 F
Feels like: 67 F
Wind: SSE 11 mph
Humidity: 29%
Pressure: 30.20 in

Today started off as a very nice day on the Eau Claire campus. There were no clouds in the sky with the sun shinning bright. We saw winds out of the south southeast at 11 mph today with gusts reaching into the mid teens. Humidity was at 29% with a normal pressure level of 30.02 inches. The weather will change over the next few days as we will see showers roll into the area over wednesday and thursday while we should expect clouds for the weekend, currently there is no precipitation for the weekend except for on sunday.

 This is the current radar for the area. You can see currently over Eau Claire that we don't have any precipitation, while south of the cities and Eau Claire there is a small precipitation cloud. This most likely will hit La Crosse in the next few hours but won't last long.

This is the current surface reading for the midwest. There is a warm front to the south that is being pushed into Wisconsin from those southern winds we have been experiencing. To our west you can see three low pressure system almost in a line. These will bring precipitation to the area once they reach us. One area to keep an eye on that could produce strong storms is the northern edge of Wyoming. there is a low pressure system right at the point were a warm and cold front meet. This is prime to produce strong storms. 

This last picture is of the upper air sounding from Minneapolis. You can see that early in the atmosphere that we almost experienced precipitation were the temperature and precipitation line almost crossed. Both the LI and KI indexes are fairly stable. Over the next two days it will be interesting to see how these stuve diagrams change and if there is potential for stronger storms based on the LI and KI indexes.