Fire danger Thursday around Omaha and a snow chance Sunday

THAT’S GOOD. HERE’S ANOTHER TIP. DON’T PLANT YET. HOW ABOUT THAT. GOT SOME REALLY COLD WEATHER COMING. YOU’LL BE PULLING OUT THE DEAD PLANTS IF YOU PLANT ALREADY THIS EVENING. WE’RE NOT TOO BAD, BUT WE’RE GOING BELOW FREEZING TONIGHT. BUT THIS WEEKEND? SUNDAY NIGHT. MONDAY. IT LOOKS REALLY COLD. RAIN FACTOR RIGHT NOW. I GIVE IT A FIVE. TOLERABLE FOR BEING AND WORKING OUTSIDE. WE’VE GOT SOME SUNSHINE. WE HAVE GOT STILL PRETTY STRONG WIND, BUT TEMPERATURES IN THE 40S. A RED FLAG WARNING TOMORROW NOON TO NINE AREA WIDE HIGH FIRE DANGER. AND I KNOW WE JUST GOT SOME MOISTURE, BUT THERE’S STILL ALL THAT DEAD BRUSH AND GRASS. AND IF FIRE GOT GOING, IT COULD STILL SPREAD WILDLY OUT OF CONTROL. THIS IS OUR STORM PREDICTOR COMPUTER MODEL INTO FRIDAY. FRIDAY WE’RE GOING TO HAVE SOME CLOUDS, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE OKAY, DAY A LITTLE QUICK SIP OF MOISTURE FRIDAY NIGHT AND THEN SATURDAY ALSO STILL LOOKS OKAY. SUNDAY. THERE’S THIS SOME RAIN, A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE AREA NEAR OR JUST SOUTH OF OMAHA, WHICH WOULD PUT US MAYBE IN AN AREA WHERE WE COULD GET RAIN EVENTUALLY CHANGING TO SNOW IN THE BACKSIDE OF THE SYSTEM. THERE’S TEN IN THE MORNING. THERE’S 1:00 IN THE AFTERNOON, THERE’S 930, AND THIS COULD BE A MONSTER SNOWSTORM FOR NORTHERN IOWA, SOUTHERN MINNESOTA, NORTHWEST ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN. BUT IT WILL BE WINDY HERE. WE’LL HAVE SOME RAIN THEN SNOW AND FALLING TEMPERATURES. YOU CERTAINLY WANT TO PAY ATTENTION TO SUNDAY IF YOU’RE TRAVELING 4532 TODAY. TEMPERATURES THAT ARE A LOT CHILLIER THAN WE’VE BEEN RECENTLY WAS 507 INCH OF MOISTURE. BUT THEY’RE SAYING ABOUT AN INCH OF SNOW OUT AT OMAHA. EPPLEY AIRFIELD. HERE’S A LOOK FROM OUR CAMERA AT 72ND. CROWN POINT. NO TRACES OF SNOW LEFT AROUND THE OMAHA AREA. NOW, WITH SUNSHINE AND THE RELATIVELY WARM GROUND, IT HAD BEEN SO WARM RECENTLY THAT THE ROADS AROUND HERE WERE JUST WET, AND NOW EVEN THE GRASSY AREAS HAVE MELTED OFF MID 40S HERE. SAME UP INTO NORTHEAST NEBRASKA, LOW 40S IN WESTERN IOWA. THE NORTHWEST WIND. CHILLY. THERE’S NOT MUCH IN THE VIEWING AREA RIGHT NOW, BUT THERE ARE A COUPLE SPRINKLES HERE IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA THAT ARE COMING SOUTHEAST. NOW. THE AIR IS DRY, IT’S WINDY. THE RADAR IS GOING TO SEE THIS STUFF ALOFT. IT PROBABLY WON’T REACH THE GROUND, BUT JUST THE POSSIBILITY OF IT HERE THIS EVENING IN AREAS OFF TO THE NORTH TONIGHT I FORECAST A LOW OF 28. MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES WILL BE CHILLY TOMORROW. IMPACT WEATHER MIDDAY IN THE AFTERNOON WITH THE RED FLAG WARNING VERY WINDY MIDDAY INTO THE AFTERNOON. IT WILL BE QUITE A LOT WARMER 68 FOR THE HIGH, THEN BREEZY AND CHILLY ON FRIDAY AND MOSTLY CLOUDY AND SATURDAY, BUT THOSE ARE RELATIVELY QUIET DAYS FROM MID MARCH PERSPECTIVE. SUNDAY IMPACT WEATHER, RAIN CHANGED TO SNOW, STRONG WINDS, COLDER TEMPERATURES THAN WE SAW TODAY. AND THEN LOOK AT THAT MONDAY MORNING