Weather Forecast: Today, Tonight, Tomorrow, Next Day, Five Days, for the U.S. and the World with links for longer-term forecasts: posted January 26, 2023

Updated at 7:46 Thursday, January 26, 2023

Here is what we are paying attention to in the next 48 to 72 hours. This article also includes World weather forecasts.

It also includes links for longer-term outlooks and sometimes we show the maps that one finds if one clicks on those links. But we can not update all of those maps each day so look at the date and the duration of the period of time involved. If you want a more up-to-date map, click on the provided link which may be located in a table of links. If the date in the title of the article is not today’s date. just go to Econcurrents.com and look for today’s weather article.

We start with the U.S. Information.

Short Range Forecast Discussion
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
107 PM EST Thu Jan 26 2023

Valid 00Z Fri Jan 27 2023 – 00Z Sun Jan 29 2023

…Effects from recent strong eastern storm to continue to wane Thursday
night into early Friday…

…Arctic air to surge south into the Northern Plains/Upper Mississippi
Valley Friday into Saturday with dangerous wind chill readings likely by
this weekend…

…Heavy snows likely through the Northern Rockies and in the lee of the
Northern Rockies from Thursday night into Saturday…

First, the 48-Hour Forecast (It is a 48 to 72 Hour Forecast actually)

Daily weather maps. I try to keep the below three maps updated. The Day 1 map updates twice a day and the Day 2 and 3 maps update only once a day. I will be doing the updating during the period described in the title of the article but if you happen to read this article later, you can get updates by clicking HERE.

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, EVENING AND OVERNIGHT

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

This animation shows how things may play out over the next 60 hours. To update click here.

ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS

Continuation of the NWS Short Range Forecast (It is updated by NWS twice a day and these updates can be found here. We post at least one of those updates daily, sometimes both. The Highlights are shown in the lede paragraph of this article.

The strong storm that has affected large portions of the nation over the
past few days from the Southern Plains into New England will continue to
push northeastward away from the U.S. and across the Canadian Maritimes
Thursday afternoon into Thursday night.  The well organized area of
precipitation ahead of this low will also be pushing out of eastern New
England Thursday afternoon.  In its wake, cold west northwesterly flow off
of the Great Lakes will support lake effect snow showers in the lee of the
lakes and into the upslope of the Central to Southern Appalachians
Thursday evening/night, but should be diminishing by Friday. 

An arctic frontal boundary will begin to press southward from south
central Canada tonight and into Northern Plains to Upper Mississippi
Valley region on Friday.  This arctic front will then continue to surge
southward into the Central Plains on Saturday.  Sharply colder
temperatures expected in the wake of this front across the Northern to
Central Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley region by this weekend with
high temperatures 10 to 20 degrees below average.  This translates into
high temperatures near zero Saturday from northeastern Montana, across
North Dakota, northeast South Dakota and northwest Minnesota.  These cold
temperatures combined with windy conditions will result in dangerous wind
chills readings this weekend across these areas.

In addition to the very cold temperatures and wind chill readings expected
with this arctic front, heavy snows will also be developing Thursday night
and continuing into Saturday across the Northern Rockies and in the lee of
the Northern Rockies.  Total snowfall accumulations over the next few days
area expected to be in the 1 to 2 foot range across these areas.  A narrow
band of heavy snows may also begin to push eastward along the arctic
frontal boundary across portions of the Northern to Central Plains into
the Upper Mississippi Valley Friday night into Saturday.

Below is the current five-day cumulative forecast of precipitation (Updates can be found HERE)

Now we look at Intermediate-Term “Outlook” maps for three time periods. Days 6 – 10, Days 8 – 14, and Weeks 3 and 4.  An outlook differs from a forecast based on how NOAA uses these terms in that an “outlook” presents information as deviation from normal and the likelihood of these deviations.

Below are the links to obtain updates and additional information. They are particularly useful if you happen to be reading this article significantly later than when it was published. I always try to provide readers with the source of the information in my articles.

Temperature month to date can be found at https://hprcc.unl.edu/products/maps/acis/MonthTDeptUS.png

Precipitation month to date can be found at  https://hprcc.unl.edu/products/maps/acis /MonthPNormUS.png

Worldwide Tropical Forecast (This is a NOAA Product)