KATC StormTeam 3 Weather BLOG

Tuesday will bring another nice and seasonable day with temperatures topping out in the upper 60s.  Another cold front will arrive by Wednesday morning and should bring temperatures down about 10 degrees for highs Wednesday into New Year’s Day.  Rain chances should be slight with this front but more changeable weather and more significant rain chances should arrive Thursday night into Friday.  Look for highs on Wednesday to top out in the mid-upper 50s dropping into the mid-upper 30s for Thursday morning.  Temperatures will likely be in the lower 40s with some wind chill at the stroke of midnight into the near year.  The pattern gets murky when the front returns northward as a warm front Thursday night into Friday with enough upper level energy to produce rain chances and perhaps a few embedded thunderstorms.  The pattern will stay unsettled and then warm significantly by the end of the weekend with a vigorous weather system likely to produce a good chance of rain and storms, may some strong storms, early next week.  And for what it’s worth, the longer range projection show rather cold air moving into the region mid-late next week.  This could be the coldest part of our winter…in fact, tonight at 10pm I’ll show the long range temperature model forecast into the second week of January so stay tuned!