Good morning,
I'm meteorologist cheetah craft.
Well, we are starting off this
morning with slick roadways.
I'm not expecting additional rain
so no need to grab that umbrella.
I mean a spotty sprinkler stray
shower could be possible but
really overall it's all thanks
to some fog that's in place.
Low cloud cover this morning is
what's bringing this kind of
misty start to the morning slick
roadways you can even see on.
See what Blvd this is glide look
outside in Galveston I you see the
wave heights picking up as well but
it doesn't matter if you're waking
up in College Station The Woodlands.
Downtown Houston,
everyone starting off really slick.
So that's going to slow your
speeds down early this morning,
probably lasting through about 10:11
AM this morning and then it'll
just be about the stubborn clouds.
Overall though,
temperatures in the 40s and 50s, not bad.
It's a chilly start to the day,
so you're going to need your
jacket out the door.
But no,
we're not talking about near
freezing temperatures just yet.
That's not going to happen
until Thursday evening.
So clouds in place throughout
the day-to-day 40s this morning
we build to the mid 50s.
Not a big temperature spread
and that's because.
Clouds will kind of trap these chilly
temperatures in this morning and
it'll keep it that way through the afternoon.
So notice mid 50s still kind
of mildly cool temperatures.
We should see most of the
moisture move out of here.
So it'll mainly just be the clouds
that are in place and then we kind
of push repeat for your Wednesday.
So I want to quickly get
into your Thursday forecast.
This is when that Arctic plunge
of deep Arctic air is expected
across the state of Texas.
And this is when you need to be prepared.
So you need to have all your preps
in place before Thursday evening.
So this is Thursday night.
8 PM, 12 below 0 in Denver.
You can see 6 below 0 in Kansas City.
Let's go to Dallas.
2139 in San Antonio, 42 here in Houston.
You can also give or take about an hour,
but I do want to show you even
from 8:00 to 9:00 o'clock,
we're going to go below freezing
here in Houston 16 in Dallas 19
and Shreveport 13 in Lubbock.
It doesn't really matter where
you go across the state,
temperatures are going to be below
the freezing point Thursday night.
So Friday morning is when we're
expected to reach the coldest.
Temperatures with the strongest
winds and that means potentially
teens to middle of 20s.
So winds gusts upwards of about
4045 mph could make our actual
temperatures feel about 10 or 15
degrees colder than what they're showing.
So 10 to 15 degrees colder.
We'll be looking at single digit
readings if all of this verifies.
14 degrees actually our temperature
expected Friday morning in Dallas,
but easily they could see wind
chills sub zero.
Can you believe that across
the state of Texas as we get?
Into Friday afternoon,
temperatures are still expected to stay below
the freezing point all across the state,
so 29 potentially to 30 degrees for highs.
Friday afternoon, similar,
therefore Dallas staying in the 20s.
Similar in San Antonio,
hovering around the freezing point
getting into Saturday morning.
We are still in the 20s here
locally and much of the state.
By Saturday afternoon we
are expecting upper 30s,
so at least we'll climb
above the freezing point.
But you have from Thursday night through
Saturday afternoon where temperatures
could be below the freezing point.
So potentially 24 to even 48 hours.
That's what you need to prepare for
it as these lows temperatures to
kind of put things in perspective.
Today we're waking up in the 40s.
Tomorrow Thursday morning we'll wake up
in the 40s, check out Friday, Saturday,
Sunday again all below freezing.
So even Christmas morning below freezing,
the Christmas afternoon looks a lot
more comfortable. That's good news.
By next week it is going to
be such a quick turn around.
Wow, look at that warming trend.
After Christmas Day,
we'll be above freezing overnight.
High temperatures build and
rebound really quickly.
Back to the 50s and even 60s
towards the end of the week.
So you really need to prepare.
It's for Friday morning,
so as early as Thursday evening and then
lasting through about Saturday afternoon,
Saturday evening,
and then thankfully by Sunday
and into early next week,
that's when temperatures really
climb above the freezing point.
But again,
first official day of winter is tomorrow.
It's going to be feeling like
it to our standards.
And then it's late Thursday
night into Friday.
That is when that Arctic air arrives,
we go from 60s, potentially we'll lose about.
20 to 30 degrees and about one to two hours.
That's how quickly those temperatures
are going to turn around.
By Christmas afternoon,
that's when Hello 40s building
a little closer to 50 degrees.
And then we start that warming
trend for next week.
We're going to keep you posted
with all the latest forecasts
right here on kgw.com.