From Wednesday Warmup to Friday Flurries?

Today, while many North Texans are still wanting to see more winter weather for the Christmas season (like last year), many others (like me) are taking this opportunity to put away their jackets and sweaters as highs today soar into the 70s and 80s. But we'll see a rapid cool-down on Thursday with temperatures steady in the 50s during that day and lows dropping to the 30s. The current disadvantage we're keeping an eye on is the high fire danger as a result of La Nina along and west of a Gainesville, Fort Worth, Cleburne, and Meridian line. West from there, cities along and within a Bowie, Decatur, Weatherford, Hamilton, Eastland, Graham, and Jacksboro bubble are under a Fire Weather Watch. The remaining Western 1/3rd of our coverage area is under a RED FLAG WARNING where the fire danger is critical. Within the Warning, humidities are falling to 8 to 14% and winds are forecasted to blow from the southwest at 10-20 MPH with gusts to 25-30. The combination thereof will produce wildfires.

We're also keeping an eye on a disturbance which is currently out in the rockies. At this point, it's producing winter weather in Northern Utah, Western Wyoming, and most of Colorado. It continues to slowly move southeast as the week progresses and will cover the Texas Panhandle tomorrow with some snow. As it inches closer to our region, it's gonna fall apart with (you know you wanna say it...) La Nina remaining in place. Many of us will be lucky if we even get a brief flurry or 2, but no significant accumulations and impacts are expected.

- Michael R.

Chilly Weather This Thanksgiving

The next couple days are gonna be warm & humid across our region with highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s. There will be some showers for the eastern 1/2 of our map with the best chances east of the I-35 corridor on Tuesday. Wednesday is pretty much the same story, but by Midnight on Wednesday Night/early Thursday morning, a strong cold front is going to sweep through. By that time, our highs will be recorded into the upper 40s to lower 50s and they'll slowly fall from there, not to mention an even better chance of showers are forecasted that day (Couldn't be a better time to stay home and enjoy your Thanksgiving feast). When it's all said and done, we'll have our first significant freeze for some locations on Thursday Night/Friday Morning and again on Friday Night/Saturday Morning for the entire North Texas and Northwestern TX regions.

If y'all are planning on taking your trips to the northern states, have your coats, ice scrapers, rock salt, shovels, and/or snow plows ready.

Happy Thanksgiving and Stay Warm!!

Cooler Weather Coming to North Texas? (Part 2)

Christopher has mentioned that a strong cold front will sweep through North Texas, bringing not only a possibility of thunderstorms but also cooler temperatures in the upper 60s to 70s during the day, and lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s. Forecasts of The Weather Channel/weather.com and the National Weather Service began to follow suit for this chance of thunderstorms on Tuesday. Dependeing on the timing of when the storms are going to form, some could be severe. The weather should remain pleasant for the next 2 weekends, especially this Saturday for participants of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure event in Dallas. Also, Fort Worth Zoo's 19th annual "Boo at the Zoo" begins on Friday October 22nd, so the weather should be pleasant for that weekend as well.

As always, we'll keep you posted of any forecast changes as the month goes on.