Wednesday May 6th, 2015, 7:45pm
Temperature: 75F
Feels like: 75F
Wind: SE 11 mph
Humidity: 51%
Pressure: 30.00 in

Today started off with nice weather and very few clouds in the sky. That changed very shortly as we saw some stratus clouds creep into the area. Going into early afternoon those turned into nimbostratus clouds and rain started to fall. The precipitation lasted for a few hours on and off. Going into late afternoon the rain had subsided but there was still total cloud cover and couldn't see the sun. We had winds out of the southeast today at 11 mph with humidity checking in at 51%. The pressure did drop slightly from yesterday, due to the fact that we have low pressure systems moving into the area. The current temperature and real feel still sits at a nice 75 degrees.

 Currently above is the radar for the Eau Claire area. You can see currently that there is a small storm cell over us. There is rain in the area with the potential for smaller storms to form. We can expect this to stay over us for a few more hours as it works its way to the west further on tonight. There are also a few spotty showers behind this cell that could pop up once again when it reaches the Eau Claire area.

 This is a picture of the current surface map for the Midwest. There is a lot going on as you can see. On the east side of Wisconsin there is a high pressure system that is sitting there, but to our west there is 7 different small low pressure systems that are making there way towards us. These low pressure systems will produce precipitation over the next few days. There is also a warm front moving its way towards us from the south. On the western side of South Dakota there is a spot were the warm front and cold front collide. Look for sever storm out in front of that cold front over the next few days. There is also a pretty good storm system over Nebraska. These we should also keep an eye on as they have potential to produce tornadoes in that area.

 This is the Stuve Diagram from the Minneapolis weather station. Reading the LI index you can see that the atmosphere is slightly unstable. You can also see that lower in the atmosphere wind direction is out of the south mostly while higher in the atmosphere the winds change and are coming out of the west mostly.

This final diagram is from the accuweather website. You can see how the jet stream has dipped very low out on the west coast while coming back up and through Wisconsin. This will cause for warm temperatures to be hitting the east coast. A big warm up for that area after the winter they experienced. We can see much precipitation to hit the Midwest along with a potential cool down.