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Patrick's First Warning Forecast: Dangerous wind chills, very slow warming trend

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Chief Meteorologist Patrick Rockey's First Warning Forecast

Those of you wishing for cold weather for Christmas wished a little too hard!

Plunging temperatures and gusty winds will combine to bring us feels-like temperatures below zero on Saturday morning.

And Christmas Eve will be a breezy day. Despite wall-to-wall sunshine, we expect high temperatures to climb only into the upper 20s.

The winds will die down, and temperatures will warm up a few degrees as we head toward Christmas Day on Sunday. But it is still going to be a chilly one.

We will wake up to temperatures in the upper teens and lower 20s and only warm into the mid 30s in the afternoon.

And we aren’t the only ones dealing with this arctic blast. The frigid weather even extends into South Florida!

The last week of 2022 will include plenty of sunshine and slowly warming temperatures as high pressure dominates our weather.

We expect to stay in the 30s on Monday but climb into the 40s on Tuesday and Wednesday.

By Thursday temperatures will be back close to normal in the lower 50s.

And as we head toward the new year, we expect to top out in the lower 60s on Friday!