This week's weather is a battle between winter and spring. Valentine's Day will start off warm, with a high in the low 50s, but there's a double-shot of cold fronts coming on tap. The first one is more of a bluster front than a cold front. A wind advisory is in effect from noon until early tomorrow morning. At first the winds will be out of the west at 15-25 mph. A second cold front, part of an Alberta Clipper, will arrive this evening. Not only will the winds pick up but they will start coming out of the northwest where the cold air lives.
Winter will make a one-day appearance tomorrow. Look for a low in the mid 20s and much lower wind chills. Tuesday's high will only reach the lower 30s under sunny skies and a brisk northwesterly breeze. The backside of that high pressure system isn't nearly as cold. As the center of the air mass moves over the city on Wednesday the winds will die down and the temperature will rebound. Wednesday's high should reach the mid 40s, Thursday should climb to the mid 50s, and Friday's high is expected to at least reach the upper 50s if not the lower 60s. December 1st was the last time the mercury hit 60 degrees in the city.
That warm weather will be happy news to the strange creatures that we noticed popping out of the ground in Morningside Park. They don't need any rain yet but some may fall on Friday evening as a Pacific cold front approaches the East Coast. Right now it looks like we'll squeeze one more warm day on Saturday before temperatures fall back to near normal on Sunday and early next week.
