Right, so I apologize now.
The stomach's gonna be growling during the
next three minute weathercast here all right.
The most important thing is who to
prepare for what is about to happen.
I mean we are going to see a huge
weather change and this is an enormous
Arctic blast temperatures we haven't
seen since last February so it is the
four P's I want to start right here
and remember that the most important
P is the first one people make.
Sure you're checking on your elderly friend,
your elderly family members, people that.
Are home alone that they are prepared for
this that they have all the food they need.
They don't have to worry about
getting out on Thursday, Friday,
even tomorrow it's gonna be wet tomorrow,
but by Thursday, Friday Saturday,
just bitter cold.
Remember, of course pets and plants.
And yes, wrap exterior pipes.
This is going to be a very cold air mass now.
The Winter Weather Watch is for
counties just off to the north.
Just neighboring counties like Bandera,
Kendall and then up into
Kerr Gillespie Blanco.
You go by 35.
It's north of New Braunfels
at the watch begins.
And then it's a winter weather
warning for junction and Sonora,
mostly sunny skies, not a cloud out there.
Beautiful in 72 dew points at 50,
so that's kind of low southeast wind.
About six.
Could be bringing in some
more moisture alright,
but no big changes tonight.
Temperatures will be mild
under mostly clear skies.
I think we turn mostly cloudy
by about 10 or 11.
Slip into the upper 50s through
midnight mid 50s overnight.
Could see a little more fog develop.
We're still going to be South of the
frontal boundary on Wednesday morning,
so I definitely think we're
going to see some.
More moisture build out ahead of
the front before the rain begins.
Speaking of the front, weak,
moderate, strong,
how about very strong?
It'll be a 30 plus temperature drop
from again Wednesday into Thursday
as we unleash a huge pool of very
cold Arctic air and it's going to
be sticking around for several days
again once we get into the 30s,
it'll be probably 48 hours
before we get into the 40s.
Alright,
let's take a look at the future rain models
and I'm going to show you two models.
So that we can compare and contrast kind
of that second opinion, if you will.
Here's tomorrow at 2:00 PM
widely scattered showers.
Temperatures of course,
way too warm to support anything wintry,
and that goes for Wednesday night,
9:00 PM,
and we're now just slipping into the 40s.
And you can still see some
rain across San Antonio,
so we're hoping for about 1/2 to maybe
up to a full inch in some cases as
we expect some heavy pockets of rain.
This is Thursday at 2:00 AM,
but notice what starts happening here?
Come the freezing temperatures
and the changeover to some sleep.
For Fredericksburg, West to Rock
Springs again 2:00 AM Thursday,
so after midnight tomorrow night.
Still looking like liquid for us and
then as we get into the Thursday morning
rush hour could start seeing some of this
sleep mix in around Bernie Kerrville,
down to Bandera and Medina,
maybe down to Fair Oaks,
maybe into whole Lotus.
It'll be close,
but we're still expecting
temperatures above freezing and most
precipitation to be liquid now as
we get into mid morning Thursday.
This is when it changes over for a lot
of us because temperatures in the city.
Will get to freezing by midday
or afternoon hours of Thursday.
A little bit of snow near comfort as
I mean Bernie and Canyon Lake and look
at the mid 20s again Thursday afternoon.
Alright now the second opinion what you
look for in models are consensus is there.
Are they matching up?
Are they showing us the same
thing and this one is very close
with most of this happening now.
Thursday morning across the Hill Country.
Just kind of a glancing blow,
maybe a little bit more snow on this
model than of the previous one.
But either way it looks as though,
again,
the biggest impact area will be
the Hill Country,
with most of it being rain for San Antonio.
This could be some accumulation
on bridges and overpasses first,
not roadways,
because we've been so warm and
you can see that it does look like
we'll get some pretty good icing
up around Kerrville.
Alright, 7 day forecast tomorrow,
40% chance of rain on groundhog's day,
some morning fog,
and then again 4 out of 10 chance
you get wet 80% though tomorrow
night heading into Thursday.
Thursday's the day of the wintry
mix could have that light freezing
drizzle on Thursday afternoon,
all precipitation out by Thursday evening.
Now look at the temperatures 36
to 34 in the afternoon.
22 Friday morning,
22.
Saturday morning wind chills single digits
across the Hill Country on Friday morning,
even Saturday morning still going to
be a bit of a frigid start to the
day 20s on Sunday morning before
we start rounding the corner and
get back into the 50s.