Chief Meteorologist Patrick Rockey's First Warning Forecast
We are now down to two weeks before Christmas and if you need chilly weather to get in the spirit, we’ve got it for you!
A cold front will cross the region overnight Sunday and into Monday, ushering in a stretch of below-normal temperatures.
It will be sunny, chilly and breezy when you wake up on Monday morning with temperatures in the upper 30s and the lower 40s and a brisk north wind making it feel even cooler.
The winds will diminish a bit late in the afternoon. We should top out in the upper 40s under partly cloudy skies.
The 40s stick around on Tuesday with a mix of clouds and sunshine.
More clouds move in on Wednesday ahead of our next big weather maker.
With a strong, cold front approaching the region, clouds will thicken up by Wednesday afternoon, and we could see a few showers develop before the main cold front gets here on Thursday.
I always tell you that our warmest air typically comes right before a cold front and that’s what we expect on Thursday. We should top out in the upper 50s to around 60 degrees on Thursday.
But that cold front will bring us widespread showers and maybe even a few thunderstorms.
The wet weather should be gone by the time you wake up on Friday morning. And it should be a fairly typical mid-December day with high temperatures in the mid 50s under partly cloudy skies.
But the chilly weather makes a comeback for the weekend before Christmas.
Expect plenty of sunshine both Saturday and Sunday with high temperatures back in the mid-to-upper 40s.
