Chief Meteorologist Patrick Rockey's First Warning Forecast
Sure, it's early October. But did you really expect to need to turn on the heat already? Many of you did just that Sunday night or Monday morning. I asked my Facebook friends if they fired up the heater and more than half did!
Good news for your utility bills: morning lows through the rest of the week will be warmer. And so will our afternoon highs.
A southwesterly wind and increasing cloud cover will keep our temperatures from dropping drastically on Tuesday morning. Most of us will wake up in the 40s and 50s, versus the 30s and 40s on Monday morning.
That southwesterly wind is courtesy of a frontal boundary out west. It will bring an increase in clouds on Tuesday and especially on Wednesday.
The system won't have much moisture to work with, so our rain chances will stay fairly limited. Temperatures ahead of the front will climb back close to normal, which is in the mid 70s.
A second (more serious) cold front will cross the region this weekend. It will have more moisture to work with, bringing us a good chance for rain on Saturday. In fact, a few showers could sneak in late on Friday and stick around into early on Sunday.
Behind the second cold front, temperatures will drop well below normal next week. And indications from forecasters at the Climate Prediction Center are that the chillier weather will stick around through the end of October. Stay tuned!
