Clouds at Times, Cooler

It's a cold start to the morning and something we haven't been used to the last week or so. The temperature is a chilly 30 degrees this morning, and this afternoon's high will also be much colder than anything we've felt in the last week. Clouds will be on and off at times today as an upper air disturbance passes through the state. This disturbance will also buckle the upper air flow and allow a weak trough to dig in over the Southeast, which will produce cooler temperatures above the surface. Due to these factors, I'll forecast a high of 54 this afternoon.

This cool pattern won't last long because our next storm system will be organizing off the coast of Southern California. Disturbances will emanate out of this main trough during the next 24-36 hours and one of those will approach the state again by tonight. Clouds should increase in response to this and will likely keep temperatures up a few more degrees than this morning. I think the low tomorrow morning will be 34.