Chilly temperatures with doable journey impacts early Saturday

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – A chilly entrance will slip south into our area in a single day, dropping temperatures and upping our possibilities for patchy freezing fog Saturday morning.

This just isn’t an enormous Arctic blast. Not a snowmaker. Just a shallow push of colder Canadian air arriving quietly after midnight and settling in Saturday morning.

Behind the entrance, winds transfer upslope, rising gently towards the Caprock. As that air rises, it cools, permitting moisture to condense close to the floor. At the identical time, floor temperatures drop beneath freezing. Lows within the higher teenagers and low 20s.

This creates the potential for tiny liquid droplets to type near the bottom, producing fog and light-weight drizzle. Because floor temperatures are beneath freezing, these droplets might freeze on contact with roads, bridges and different uncovered surfaces.

Freezing fog and freezing drizzle are particularly tough as a result of they don’t at all times produce apparent accumulations. Roads might seem damp, however elevated surfaces like bridges and overpasses can ice over rapidly, creating slick situations. Drivers ought to permit further time and use warning throughout their morning commute.

Temperatures on Saturday rely on a couple of issues.

If cloud cowl hangs round longer than anticipated, some areas might wrestle to climb out of the 20s and 30s, particularly north and east of Lubbock.

Conditions enhance by late Saturday afternoon as drier air strikes in and clouds steadily skinny. The cooler climate will likely be short-lived. By Sunday, winds flip again to the southwest, skies clear, and temperatures rebound towards seasonal temperatures.

Highs within the 50s and 60s are anticipated all through a lot of subsequent week, with dry and uneventful climate persevering with.

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