If You Don't Like the Weather in the Midwest...

You may have heard some variation of the saying, "If you don't like the weather in the Midwest, just wait 15 minutes." 

Friday morning we'll wake up to seasonable temperatures in the teens, but with southwesterly winds and plenty of sunshine we'll warm up quickly into the middle and upper 30s.  On Saturday we'll be just a few degrees warmer near 40° and with less snow pack southwest of the QC temperatures may exceed the 40° mark.

If you're a fan of the cold weather, you're in luck.  An arctic cold front with limited moisture and lift has its eyes on the Quad Cities very early Sunday morning.  Temperatures will be in the 20s overnight Saturday, and will continue to fall during the morning, afternoon & evening hours Sunday; dropping below zero Sunday night into Monday.  The latest data coming in shows the Quad Cities buckled under the cold weather for much of next week.

Here's the Climate Prediction Center's outlook for days 6 through 10, showing the brunt of the really cold weather will be in the northern Great Lakes region.