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This one could be a doozy.
A new cold front is expected to drag cold, dry air into North Texas on Wednesday night, the National Weather Service reported.Winds will be out of the south today, but that will change this evening -- in a big way, said Dan Shoemaker, weather service meteorologist."The wind should shift in the Metroplex just after sunset and it should keep getting colder from then on," Shoemaker said. "We're going to hit 60 today," he said, "but the lows tomorrow morning will be in the upper 20s to low 30s around Tarrant County, and the high on Thursday will only get close to 30."This winter blast comes from a mass of frozen air over Canada that is pouring into the United States.But residents of the Midwest and the eastern United States will have it much worse than Texans because they're on the other side of the jet stream with the most fierce cold air.Temperatures on Wednesday were minus-19 in North Dakota and in the single digits in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska, Shoemaker said."It's a major arctic outbreak, but not for our part of the world," he said. "We're only getting the very edge of it."Nevertheless, Thursday and Friday will be the coldest this week in North Texas -- only in the 40s.Saturday will see a return to the 60s, Shoemaker said. Sunday might be a few degrees cooler, but it will be sunny both days.The seven-day forecast holds no possibility for rain, Shoemaker said.He added that the next 36 hours might be the coldest of winter 2009."Our coldest time of the year, according to climatology, is from Christmas to the end of January," he said. "We start getting more sun in late January and February."Bill Miller, 817-390-7684
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