Good evening, gang. We are rolling our way into a milder pattern, but it’s a pattern that continues to look on the active side of things. Before we get to all that, we have one more frigid night ahead of us.

The northwesterly wind flow continues to produce some narrow bands of snow showers. A few of these dropped local half to 1″ accumulations earlier this morning in narrow corridors. Track the plume off Lake Michigan into Kentucky…

Lows tonight will drop back into the middle teens for many, with pockets of low teens showing up in the cold valleys.

Thursday looks much better with skies becoming partly sunny as temps hit 40 in the far east and 50 in the west.

Clouds will quickly thicken Thursday night with showers arriving on Friday. That’s ahead of a cold front that sweeps in here Friday night and early Saturday with a seasonal chill behind it.

Milder winds will blow on Sunday and Monday, with highs on Monday looking warmer and warmer. Several models now have the 70s in the west…

Most of the state should actually surge deep into the 60s, at least.

Late day showers and thunderstorms will increase along another cold front dropping in from the northwest…

The cold air coming behind that front should only give us a glancing blow for the middle of the week. Much milder air is now showing up for the end of next week as southwesterly winds crank…

Those temps may be ahead of a potent storm system that has a strong to severe thunderstorm look to it…

Here’s another showing up on the models a few days after that…

The two week rainfall forecast map from the GFS shows the action targeting our region into the deep south…

Once our winter interlude is over, the seasonal setup continues to scream severe weather in our region.

Enjoy the evening and take care.