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JANUARY THAW?
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 -- 12:25 pm
Posted by Riley Hebert-News Director
After a very cold start to the new decade, things are looking up.
We could see a mini January thaw over the next week.
"The trend is upward in the temperature department," says Steve Thompson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in La Crosse.
In fact, beginning tuesday, high temperatures are expected to be at or above 30-degrees for as far as the 7-day forecast projects. Low temperatures are expected to be in the teens and 20s during this stretch.
And no snow is in the forecast at all.
Thompson says El Nino has been a factor in our winter weather patterns.
"We've had cold weather, but we've also had dry weather. The storm systems are staying to the north in Canada and well to our south, across the southern part of the country," he says.
When it’s cold, global warming skeptics say ‘see, global warming’s a farce’; when it’s warm, believers say, ‘see, global warming is real.'
Thompson doesn’t want to comment on his beliefs, but he notes it’s interesting that December 2009 will go down as the snowiest December on record in the United States.
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