Many Saturdays will remain cool as it will be cloudy

Good Saturday morning everyone. As expected, clouds have formed overnight, with perhaps a few thunderstorms in the northern Ozarks. The better snow this morning is limited to the I-70 corridor in central and northern Missouri as our storm system continues to move out of the plains and spread overhead.

While FutureCast wants the accumulating snow to stay to our north, a few light snow showers or flurries will attempt to graze areas from Cole Camp across Lake of the Ozarks to Rolla northward late this morning and into the afternoon. Areas south of there may experience intermittent light showers, but should be limited to isolated showers near Springfield. If anything were to accumulate in the Northern Ozarks, it wouldn’t be much. Any rainfall amounts should remain under a quarter of an inch. All grassy and elevated snow accumulations should be between a dust layer and no more than a quarter inch.

After this system dissipates and leaves us partly cloudy tonight and partly sunny Sunday, we should remain calm until the next potential system on December 9th. This means that by next week we will see our jet stream take us from a cold setup to a welcome rise in temperatures by the middle of next week.

For today the numbers will vary. As southwesterly winds increase in this system, most of the Ozarks should see highs in the mid 40s to around 50°. In the far north and northeast of the Ozarks, highs today should only be around 40°.

Our Sunday will start off cold with lows in the 20s across the region, with the coldest values ​​once again in the Northern Ozarks. With a little more sunshine, we will see highs in the low to mid 40s for the central and southern Ozarks. Areas in the far north could struggle to get above the 30s on Sunday afternoon.

Luckily it will get a little warmer at some point next week.

After morning lows in the low 20s on Monday and Tuesday and highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s, we’ll be rewarded with highs well into the 50s next Wednesday and Thursday. While there is disagreement about how quickly we can cool things down by the end of next week, highs could fall back into the lower 40s by next Friday.

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