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Sheldon Community Fire & Rescue

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PREPARE NOW: People, pets, pipes and plants. Strong cold front will move through the area Sunday night. Potential for light freeze Tuesday morning.

After several days of record or near record warmth and a few more still to come (the weekend) a strong cold front will bring the area back toward normal or slightly below normal early next week. Before then, at least another 3 days of well above normal temperatures and on and off again sea fog along the coast and inland bays. In fact, Sunday ahead of the front could be the really warm day if clouds burn off enough and push the area toward the low to mid 80’s.

Strong cold front will pass across the region Sunday night (likely around midnight for the metro area) and off the coast by sunrise. This will be modified arctic air, but as seen often so far this fall/winter the brunt of this air mass will head for the Great Lakes and eastern US with Texas seeing a glancing blow of the cold air. Temperatures will fall quickly behind the front and fall into the 40’s and 50’s by sunrise on Monday with gusty northerly winds and cloudy skies. Temperatures may continue a fall on Monday if clouds hang in for a good part of the day brining much of the area into the 40’s….this will be some 25-30 degrees colder than Sunday. There will be a slight chance of showers with the front Sunday night, but then dry after with a much drier air mass moving into the region.

If we can clear out on Monday night there is some potential for a light freeze (29-32) for areas outside of the urban heat centers. Highest potential is north, west, and east of the metro area, but there is a least some potential for a few hours of freezing temperatures in the colder rural locations (inland coastal counties) south of I-10 and maybe into parts of the urban core. Overall this looks similar to the cold and light freeze a few weeks ago…a couple of cold nights then back to the warming trend.

May see another cold night Tues night/Wed AM depending how quickly the surface high moves off to the east allowing southerly winds to return. After that, a warm up into mid to late week and potentially back to the sea fog threat with the southerly winds allowing higher dewpoint air mass to advect across the chilled nearshore waters. ... See MoreSee Less