Cold Front Passed, But It's Still Hot!

Chief Meteorologist Craig Carnesi with you on this fine Monday afternoon...

We finally got a little relief today in the form of a dry cold front. In Abilene we've topped out today at 91 so far, much better than yesterday's 104. (For more on yesterday's heat, scroll down to my earlier posting.) Snyder and Sweetwater only made it into the upper 80s as of 4:30 p.m.

I wish I could say we are done with the 100s, but unfortunately we are not. Wednesday's highs should climb back into the 100s, and we may even see a repeat of Sunday with highs in the 100-108 range. This is all in advance of another cold front, but this front will have much more of a punch than the last one. Highs across the Big Country will be lucky to make it to 80 after the front arrives Wednesday night. There's also a 20% chance of a few isolated showers or thunderstorms as this front passes. The moisture has been much quicker to return this time around than with this last front.

There won't be enough rain to end our deficit for 2005, but anything will help. I'll talk more specifics about how far we are behind rain wise during the news at 6:00 p.m. tonight.

As always, feel free to post all questions and comments here or send me an e-mail, ccarnesi@krbc.tv. I'll post here again later...