Winter Weather Could Be Coming

From Chief Meteorologist Craig Carnesi...

Even though temperatures will warm back into the middle 70s to lower 80s this week, get ready, because Mother Nature is going to cool us down again by Friday.

With the dry air in place and Southwesterly winds, afternoon highs will climb well above average this week. Winds will remain breezy each afternoon as well, so fire danger will remain elevated all week.

A strong cold front will push through the Big Country Thursday night. This frontal system will not only cool us down, but will also bring us our best chance for precipitation in a while as well.

With previous cold fronts, all of the moisture has been scoured out of the area after the fronts have arrived. This time around, it looks like the moisture will remain.

Right now it looks like most of precipitation will fall in the liquid form and then possibly freeze on contact with the surface, depending on temperatures at the surface. More on the precipitation type expected later this week.

Either way, it is definately going to be colder than average. Highs Friday will run in the middle to lower 40s, Saturday, only in the upper 30s.