Last night our coldest temps happened around midnight as low clouds surged in and had us warming before daybreak. That cloud deck is associated with a weak surface low trying to form along the upper Texas Coast. As the low moves by us tonight, look for periods of light to moderate rainfall through about daybreak. Rains will taper off during Monday morning as the low pulls to our east with colder air coming back in for the start of this week.
Today is slightly milder, but it is our 7th straight day below normal. We were spoiled last month with our way above normal/average December temperatures.
That streak of below normal temps will continue for the next couple of days as more cold air flows down from the north.
Fortunately, the next Arctic blast moving into the northern Plains should stay to our north and east. It'll be chilly here, but not frigid. Here's why. The upper trough remains over the Rockies & West Coast. That keeps a mainly west to east flow over us.
The upper flow over the Pacific is bringing a gush of milder air into western Canada & Alaska. Gone are the 40-50 below temps with much of Alaska above freezing!
There still is a pool of 20-30 below zero north of Hudson Bay and some of that will plunge over the Great Lakes this week. But until that upper trough shifts farther east out of the Rockies and over the central Plains & Great Lakes, we'll avoid the pipe freezing weather. Here's the upper flow valid for Monday Jan. 20th.
That certainly looks to keep most of the nation with the coldest January since 2011. We have warmed up slightly today.
We might even get above normal/average for a couple of days late week before next week gets cold again. I'm keeping my plants inside my shed until Thursday. I'm like you, I'm tired of moving them inside and out. I know many of you like the cold temps., but my arthritis is killing my hands. Let's see...hurricanes vs sore hands? The sore hands win! I'll put up & shut up! Stay tuned!
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