Duh, Arctic front is here...

Just in case you slept in and can't hear winds gusting to 36mph, the arctic front arrived around 5am this morning dropping our temperatures in Helotes from 51 degrees to our present low of 34 degrees at 9am. A few current state temperatures: 12 degrees in Amarillo, 18 degrees in Lubbock, 24 in Dallas, 24 in Kerrville, 25 in Junction and Brownsville hanging in there at 65 degrees (front has not arrived yet).

If it stays cloudy today, I still expect temperatures to drop below freezing and stay below freezing until almost noon on Saturday. Even if the clouds part, I don't see us geting out of the 30's until Saturday afternoon. During the next couple of days there will be a chance for seeing a few flurries, especially on Friday, when a small upper low drifts into NW Texas. Models are showing the low to evaporate before it reaches our area, but I still think it might have enough energy to throw a few flakes our direction.

Meanwhile, record lows and bitter cold are occurring throughout the northern hemisphere. There are so many reports of record lows that I've just about given up on posting them in my "Global Cooling" section of www.myweatherpage.com

Enjoy the cold!