Chief Meteorologist Patrick Rockey’s First Warning Forecast
It was nice to see the sunshine return today, but clouds will be moving back in, along with showers and thunderstorms.
We are tracking a storm system moving through the center of the country that will send our temperatures soaring, bring rain and wind and then bring another big drop in temperatures.
It will be a sunny and cold start to your Wednesday. Most of us will wake up in the 20s under mostly sunny skies.
But the clouds will start to roll in by the afternoon, and by late Wednesday evening we will start to see rain arrive.
Thursday will be wet, windy and warm. Expect scattered showers throughout the day, maybe even a few thunderstorms.
A gusty south wind will send our temperatures into the upper 50s and lower 60s.
Forecast models are not in agreement with how much rain to expect, but it looks like some of us could receive more than an inch of rain.
And we really could use the rain. We are nearly an inch behind for the month of December, and more than 10 inches behind for the year.
The rain should be gone by the time you wake up on Friday morning. It will be our transition day temperature-wise. We should top out at a near- normal 55 degrees.
But the really chilly air pours in for the weekend, when we expect highs in the mid-to-upper 40s under mostly sunny skies.
