Winter Weather Update

From Morning Meteorologist Kristen Connolly...

Yesterday was a warm one across the Big Country with temperatures hitting into the mid to upper 40's. We saw some rain across the area with the precipitation staying as liquid with temperatures above freezing. A cold front pushed through the area last night helping to cool some temperatures some causing frozen precipitation in the morning hours across counties in the North and Western Big Country. Otherwise rain was reported with a bit of sleet mixing.

The bulk of the activity will be beginning into this evening and throughout tomorrow. Temperatures have been hovering around the freezing mark and will gradually begin to change precipitation type over to a mix of sleet this afternoon and evening with maybe some snowing mixing in overnight and tomorrow. Northern and Western counties will like see more snow out of the event with the Southern counties seeing mostly rain.

Updated watches and warning as of 12 noon: Winter Storm Warning for Stonewall, Knox, Haskell, Fisher, Scurry, Jones, Nolan and Mitchell. This means travel will be hazardous with accumulations of snow, sleet and ice. Winter Storm Advisory for Taylor, Callahan, Shackleford, and Throckmorton this means that periods of freezing rain, sleet and snow will cause travel difficulties. A Winter Storm Watch in effect for Coke, Runnels and Coleman which means that there is the potential for significant sleet, snow and ice that may impact travel.

Tomorrow we will continue to see the activity but should see decreasing clouds my Saturday evening. Sunday we should be able to break out the sunshine with temperatures getting into the lower 40's. Monday another system will be pushing in along with cooler temperatures around freezing which brings back another chance for snow. By mid week we should be back in the 40's with the sun again peaking through.

Have a great weekend, drive safe and stay warm.