Friday Afternoon Discusion

From Chief Meteorologist Craig Carnesi...

After a chilly start this morning across the Big Country we warmed up nicely into the upper 50s areawide. Tonight, I'm expecting cool conditions, but not quite as cool as this morning. Most places will stay above freezing with lows in the middle to upper 30s. The only exception will be in low-lying areas, like Brownwood for instance, where I expect a light frost tonight.

The weekend still looks fabulous. For Saturday you can expect mostly sunny skies and highs in the upper 60s to right at 70. Sunday, even warmer, but a bit breezy, with highs in the middle 70s.

Changes are coming next week though. Monday will be warm with partly cloudy skies and highs in the middle 70s. Monday night a weak cold front will pass through, it won't cool us off much, but it will be a focussing mechanism for a few isolated showers and thunderstorms possibly Tuesday afternoon.

Wednesday, we will be watching an upper level system to our North and West. This system, combined with a dryline that may form, could bring us stronger thunderstorms Wednesday into Thursday. Right now I'm only calling for a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms, but I expect I will be raising those chances unless something drastically changes between now and then.

By Thursday rain chances come to an end and temperatures rebound back into the upper 70s.