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KEY MESSAGES

- Cold Weather Advisory continues with one more bitter cold night/morning of wind chills -15F to -25F.

- We climb out of the deep freeze Monday afternoon, but the brunt of the week will still be on the seasonably chilly side thanks, in part, to the widespread snowcover.

- Precipitation chances this week are limited to light/low end ones mainly in the Friday-Saturday time frame.

- Maybe, just maybe, we see a more appreciable warmup begin about a week from now.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 350 PM CST Sun Jan 25 2026

Boy last night/this morning sure was a cold one, in spots, thanks to the fresh snow cover, clearing skies, and light winds. In fact, a few locations dipped to double-digits below zero for air temperatures! Don't think we'll get *quite* as cold tonight for air temperatures, but a light breeze will still cause very cold wind chills in the -15 to -25 degree range for the entire forecast area. Also, improvement will be slow Monday morning since wind speeds will be rising in concert with slowly rising air temps. No changes were made to the Cold Weather Advisory, and it should be allowed to expire at noon on Monday.

Held onto some very slight chances for light snow/flurries in our far W this evening, but most of this activity should slide through SW Nebraska into W Kansas. Otherwise, the forecast remains dry until late in the upcoming work week. Latest ensemble guidance continues to suggest some weak disturbances interacting with an increasingly tight baroclinic zone over the High Plains, on the SW fringe of another intense high pressure working S out of Canada. There could also be some upslope flow component to the precip chances. At any rate, the 50 member EPS keeps total precip amounts quite light, with only about 10 percent of the members giving more than a tenth of QPF. Could be another long, drawn out, period of light precip chances, as well - perhaps from Thursday night all the way into Saturday, at least on an off and on basis.

Temperatures will try to warm back into the upper 30s and 40s for Wednesday (maybe 50F in Furnas County?), but this will be short-lived as another surge of Arctic air moves in Thursday and especially for Friday. Fortunately, this next round doesn't look to be nearly as intense or persistent. In fact, latest ensemble blends agree on a decent upward trend in forecast temps beginning late next weekend and continuing into the following week.

AVIATION /00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z TUESDAY/

Issued at 536 PM CST Sun Jan 25 2026

For KGRI/KEAR Airports:

Dry weather with VFR conditions are forecast for this TAF period. Satellite imagery showing a batch of SCT-BKN lower level clouds across the eastern portions of the forecast area...but these clouds are expected to continue to diminish this evening, thus kept the ceiling SCT. Expecting clearing skies through the overnight hours into the day on Monday. NNW winds currently in place will gradually diminish in speed this evening, then turn more westerly, the southwesterly overnight. Mid morning Monday on through the end of this period, expecting WSW winds, gusts around 25-30 MPH will be possible once again.

GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

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