Cold Air Mass US- When will it end?

Much of our weather work is gathering historic weather data for clients and providing detailed analysis. It is certainly interesting looking at historic data and recreating what happened.

However we do plenty of operational weather forecasting in United States and also on a worldwide basis. The main focus now is the cold weather experienced so far this winter in northern portion of the US and within the eastern half to two thirds of the country. At the time of this writing two feet of snow is predicted for some portions of the East Coast of the US as a Nor’easter is moving up the coast. Also, -35 F is forecasted for some of northern tier of the US for the morning

Many folks are asking; is there is any end in sight? Now an extended forecast out 16 days is difficult to hang your hand on. However forecast models have been suggesting that much of the US will have temperatures return to normal near February 6. The forecast maps do show this as we start to get a more zonal flow in the upper atmosphere, west to east. This links shows this and proceed to loop that says “384 hour 12 z Thursday February 6.”