One More Warm Day

It's a very cold start to the morning as the temperature dropped to 21 uner clear skies and calm winds. We'll warm up appreciably this afternoon as high pressure will quicky shift to our east and a southerly wind will component will ensue later this morning. Today should be mostly sunny, but a few stray clouds in advance of another cold front and upper air system could clip the area later this morning. If the clouds do clip us, they should move off the to east within an hour or two at the most. The high this afternoon should be able to reach 53. By tonight, a powerful arctic cold front will sweep through and will bring one of the coldest air masses in quite some time to the area. Despite the nature of the cold air associated with the front, models are insistent on keeping cloud cover around overnight. With this in mind, I'm going to undercut the models for the fact that they won't catch on to this air mass, but I don't think the bottom drops out. I'll forecast a low of 21 tomorrow morning -- still quite chilly though. Tomorrow will be extremely cold with high temperatures struggling to reach freezing and Friday morning temperatures could drop into the single digits! Brrr!