(Published Monday, February 19, 2007 11:00:40 AM CST)
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
By Marcia Nelesen Gazette Staff
With any luck, this warming trend will break a streak of lows that plunged below zero on Jan. 30 and continued through Feb. 16 with only two brief interruptions.
The latest warming trend began Saturday and should continue at least through the weekend.
Hopefully, we'll keep moving in that direction toward spring.
Or not.
A representative from the National Weather Service in Sullivan checked the long-range forecast and said there appears to be an equal chance of higher-than-normal temps with rain and lower-than-usual temps with snow.
Talk about hedging your bets.
Greg Davis did say it is "probably true'' that we've have seen the last of our below-zero days.
The near future at least looks better, with temperatures above normal for a change.
And that, with possible rain over the weekend, could do in the snow.
Temps should reach the upper 30s today and Tuesday, with Wednesday's temps as high as the low 40s.
Even lows Friday are predicted to dip only into the low 30s.
This time of year, the average temps are a high of 32 and a low of 15, Davis said.
Davis went out on a limb and predicted near normal temperatures into the future, "maybe slightly above.''
But don't get too comfortable.
Since 1948, the latest recorded below zero reading in Janesville was April 5.
