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Cold Front Arrives Overnight – Mild Over The Weekend – Arctic Front Possible Next Week

Our roller coaster weather continued today with record highs set once again for a few cities:  Dallas (DFW Airport) reached 83 breaking the previous record of 81, Waco also reached 83 breaking their previous record of 80, San Angelo reached 84 breaking their previous record of 81, Austin reached 85 breaking their previous record of 77, College Station and Houston both reached 82 breaking their previous record of 80, Galveston reached 76 breaking their previous record of 73, and McAllen made it to 89 which broke their previous record of 87.  So, in a nutshell…it was unusually warm and felt more like springtime across a large portion of the state today.  That changes tonight as a cold front arrives which will drop temperatures back down to where they should be in late December.  The cold front is currently moving into our north and northeast Texas counties, will reach our central Texas counties after midnight and will be positioned across south central Texas by 6am tomorrow morning.  This front will arrive dry for the most part, but fog, showers and drizzle are possible late tonight through mid-day tomorrow for areas ahead of the front across southeast, southcentral and deep south Texas.  No severe weather is expected.

Lows tonight…seasonal across the north, still above normal for the southern half of the state ahead of the cold front.  Tomorrow’s forecast highs will be much the same with seasonal readings across the panhandle, north, central and western Texas with above average temperatures across the southern regions where the front will not have as much of an impact.  For the remainder of the week, we’ll see mild temperatures overall…a bit above normal for late December, but nothing too extreme.  But get ready………..

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The long-range forecast models and the Climate Prediction Center are both showing the strong probability of a deep freeze for a good portion of the US next week with the arrival of another strong arctic front. Based on current forecast models, the arctic front should arrive in Texas sometime next Wednesday. Whether we get any precipitation (winter or liquid) behind the front is what we’ll be carefully watching over this weekend as the forecast develops. Both of the long-range models agree on the cold, but neither agree on whether we’ll see any rain, snow or ice behind the front.  One model is projecting precip, one is keeping us dry…so we’ll have to wait and see how that develops in the coming days.

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