Yet another record fell in St. Louis today as we surpassed 70 degrees for the 8th time in February! The previous record of 7 days stood for 41 years. We'll have one more day near 70 this week, and then temperatures take a huge drop heading into the weekend.
With just a few days left in the month, we're still on track to have the warmest February on record in St. Louis.
A strong cold front will push through on Friday, rapidly dropping temperatures and bringing chance for a few thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon/evening.
The better chance of storms will likely be east of St. Louis, and the threat for severe will stay will east of St. Louis on Friday into Friday night. Parts of the Ohio Valley will have to be on the lookout for a severe weather outbreak with tornadoes possible Friday evening into the overnight hours.
It's a big weekend in St. Louis with Mardi Gras festivities continuing on Saturday with the crowd-drawing Mardi Gras parade on Saturday morning, and it's looking CHILLY! Much colder air will settle in Friday night with overnight lows falling to near 30 with even a few flurries possible.
Dry weather is expected Saturday for those coming to Soulard, but it will be quite cool through the day with temperatures in the low 40s for the afternoon.
We will have a few precipitation chances next week, which will try to help out with the drought situation in the bi-state. Currently our entire viewing area is either abnormally dry or in moderate drought. Things are worse on the Missouri side, where St. Louis is almost 2" behind on liquid precipitation and more than 1 foot behind on snow since January 1.
Since the beginning of meteorological winter on December 1, we've only had 3.4" of liquid precipitation when normally we record 6.99".