Winter Storm

Coldest Air of the Season Plunging into the Plains, Midwest, South and Northeast and Will Linger Well into Next Week

At a Glance

A blast of cold air will envelop much of the central and eastern U.S. through this weekend.
This will be the coldest air of the season for parts of the Midwest, Plains, Northeast and South.
The cold weather pattern will continue into much of next week.

A shivering weather pattern has spread the coldest temperatures so far this fall across the Plains, Midwest, South and East late this week.

The weather pattern into mid-November will feature an overall southward plunge of the jet stream across the central and eastern states. This will allow a pipeline of arctic air to sweep southward from Canada behind a couple of cold fronts.

Early Saturday temperatures dropped into the single digits and teens as far south as western Missouri and eastern Kansas. Dallas saw its first freeze Saturday morning, the earliest freeze here since 1993.

Subzero wind chills were reported from northern Montana into much of North Dakota and South Dakota – including Great Falls, Montana, Bismarck, North Dakota, and Rapid City, South Dakota early Friday.

A few daily record low temperatures were broken on Friday at Grand Island, Nebraska (7 degrees), Sioux City, Iowa (8 degrees), Kansas City (13 degrees) and Topeka, Kansas (16 degrees).

Saturday morning, lows in the teens reached as far south as parts of Kansas, Missouri and Illinois, with 20s into Arkansas and Oklahoma. This resulted in several daily record lows Saturday including, Aberdeen, South Dakota (0 degrees), Hastings, Nebraska (9 degrees), Topeka, Kansas (12 degrees), Columbia, Missouri (16 degrees), St. Louis (18 degrees, tied), Tulsa, Oklahoma (19 degrees) and Oklahoma City (20 degrees).

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