Sheldon, Iowa — Well, we appear to have climbed out of the deep freeze and are back to more normal temperatures for this time of year.
We talked with weather technician Tim Masters with the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls, and he tells us what’s on tap for the next few days.
(as said) “We’ll be looking at highs climbing into the 40s by next week. But then cooling off a little bit toward the 30s for the second half of next week. The only quirk in that forecast is that Saturday night and Sunday morning we could have a little snow coming in.”
Normal highs for late February in Sheldon are in the mid 30s, reaching the upper 30’s by the end of the month. This coming Tuesday looks like it might be the warmest for the next week with a high that day near 43.
We asked Masters what caused the arctic air and why it’s warmer now.
(as said) “We kind of flushed out the cold air that was bound up in Canada and the polar area that stayed away from our region for kind of the first half of winter. And now that’s all drained out… there really isn’t much of it left. We’ll just be bringing in more of a west to northwest flow that brings in more normal winter temperatures for the next couple of weeks.”
The six-to-ten-day forecast is calling for normal temperatures and normal precipitation. Unfortunately, the further out forecasters attempt to predict the weather, the less accurate the forecast. So beyond that, we’ll just have to wait and see, says Masters.
