No major changes to the ongoing forecast other than the amount of cloud cover that we are going to see tomorrow. After some brief clear tonight high clouds will invade with an upper trough approaching from the northwest. These high clouds will not only be thick enough to dull the sun, but may take any meager solar heating away from us Friday. Therefore there is a chance that temperatures may not got much above freezing tomorrow…and if so it will only be a few degrees. So there is the possibility that instead of staying below freezing for 12-15 hours we could see sub-freezing temperatures for more than 36 hours straight. This will certainly lead to pipe-busting issues for some folks who aren’t properly prepared for this arctic outbreak. You may recall the arctic outbreak just before Christmas 1989…temperatures during this outbreak stayed below freezing for more than 72 hours with lows on successive nights at 15, 9 and 11 degrees (22nd-24th). We shouldn’t be that cold with this outbreak but some records will be threatened, especially Saturday morning. The record for tomorrow morning is 21 in 1942 (should be safe), 21 in 1962 for Saturday (in jeopardy) and14 for Sunday (should be safe). Stay with KATC and katc.com for the latest on the big chill.
Where is Al Gore and all that global warming.
CHRISTINE MYERS
8 Jan 10 at 5:59 pm
hey Christine, what are you going to say when summer comes around again and we have heat waves and drought? Nothing, I’ll wager. You can’t walk outside and say global warming is or is not happening. It’s a long term thing (and picking 1998 as the starting year is not honest either).
JP
11 Jan 10 at 8:41 am