Chief Meteorologist Patrick Rockey's First Warning Forecast
Clear and cold and then warmer and wet. That's the next week of weather in a nutshell.
A strong cold front will cross the region on Tuesday morning, ushering in the coldest air of the season.
Most of us will wake up to temperatures near freezing, while some of us will even drop into the 20s.
And while most cold fronts bring rain, this one will hardly even bring us clouds. So we can expect plenty of sunshine on Tuesday. But high temperatures will only reach the mid-to-upper 40s. that's about 10 degrees cooler than Monday.
And even colder weather arrives by Wednesday morning, when most of us will drop into the 20s. And most of us will only climb into the low-to-mid 40s by the afternoon, despite lots of sunshine.
Things start to change on Thursday, as more clouds move in during the afternoon. A more southerly breeze will send temperatures back into the mid 50s.
The warming trend continues Friday and into the weekend, with highs near 60 degrees. But the dry trend does not continue.
A series of storm system pushing in from the Gulf of Mexico will bring us scattered showers from Friday into Tuesday morning.
That means our drought-plagued region will get a healthy dose of much-needed rain. Stay tuned.
