Pleasant Veteran's Day Ahead

From Chief Meteorologist Craig Carnesi...

After a beautiful Thursday across the Big Country, Friday looks to be just as nice. If you will be up early for either of the parades in Abilene or Brownwood, you might want a jacket in the morning, but possible short sleeves by afternoon.

Temperatures will moderate and begin to warm by morning, thanks to winds returning to the southeast and bringing moisture back into the Big Country. Afternoon highs will easily climb back into the middle 70s across the area as well. Winds will be gusty by afternoon running 10 to 20 miles per hour.

Our next chance for rain comes overnight Friday into Saturday, although those chances aren't that good. An upper level system will pass to our North, we just have to hope we can get enough upper level energy from the system for a few showers and thunderstorms.

As the system passes, we will have another cold front pass through on Sunday, keeping afternoon highs in the middle 70s until Tuesday. Then a strong cold front with Arctic high pressure behind it arrive.

Our average first freeze in Abilene is November 19th. We could get pretty close to our first freeze of the season on Wednesday morning, November 16th.