The Warm Up Begins

Good Morning from Morning Meteorologist Kristen Connolly...

2008 will be known for coming in with a cold streak. We hit the coldest temperatures in the Big Country that we have seen since back in December of 2005. The good news- it is warming up. Temperatures this morning are in the low 30's thanks to southerly winds and cloud cover due to a disturbance moving over head in the upper levels. This system is causing a blanket of mid and upper level clouds as well as precipitation in the upper levels. A few sprinkles are making to the ground but with the dry air at the surface almost all activity evaporates before it hits the ground.

This system will continue to push east and most of the cloud cover moves along giving way to plenty of sunshine with a few clouds through the day. As the jet stream is now pushed north a warming trend will continue through the weekend. We will deal with one drier day but moisture should begin its return into the weekend. Highs today rebound to more seasonable like making it into the mid 50's. Overnight we will get down to upper 30’s.

This weekend partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures hitting around 70 will persist with high pressure the main player. Overnight lows will be around 50.

Early next week another front rolls through knocking back temperatures and brining our first chance of rain into 2008.

Have a great day!