Monday Morning, December 26th, 2005

From meteorologist Jason Myers....

Another warm day with a record breaking high temperature of 79 degrees in Abilene and a few locations reaching the 80 degree mark. The record high for today is 74 degrees set back in 2003.
High pressure to the Big Country's southeast and low pressure in the panhandle will create a tight pressure gradient over the Big Country, giving us windy conditions from the south-southwest at 10-20 mph. Combining these high winds with low relative humidities and warm temperatures will cause a Red Flag Warning to be in effect today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather is occuring or will occur shortly. There is also a Fire Weather Watch in effect for Tuesday, meaning that critical fire weather is forecasted to occur.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=TXZ127&warncounty=TXC441&local_place1=Abilene&product1=Red+Flag+Warning

A pacific cold front will move through the Big Country Tuesday afternoon/evening allowing a few more clouds on Tuesday keeping temperatures a few degrees cooler than today. Mild temperatures will stay around this week. Temperatures on Wednesday will be 66 degrees due to the cold front. Another pacific cold front will move through on Friday. However, with these cold fronts, precipitation does not look likely because of the dry air in place over the Big Country.

Enjoy the mild weather!