Yesterday, we had warmed to the 70s over much of the region with upper 60s north of the metro.

We didn’t break any records, but it was way above the average of mid 50s. Today we are back to reality. A strong cold front moved through yesterday evening, and now it is dropping to our south.

We had a good amount of rain with the passage of the front.

In the last 24 hours we picked up about a quarter to a half an inch.

This put our total rainfall just a little above average for February.

I’d say it’s been a pretty wet meteorological Winter (meteorological = Dec, Jan, Feb) overall.

Today we will be dry, but much colder/cooler. High temps will only rise to the upper 40s to near 50 degrees.

We’ll have lots of sunshine through the day. The wind will decrease from 10-15mph to 5-10mph out of the northwest and then northeast.

Tomorrow we’ll have quiet weather for a while. We’ll be partly cloudy for the first half of the day, but then clouds will increase in the afternoon. We’ll also have some isolated showers late. By the early evening we’ll have lots of scattered rain showers over the area.

This will be a weak area of low pressure moving through the region. It will bring us a lot of rain Friday night into Saturday morning.

The rain should decrease in the afternoon with highs temps near 60 degrees. Then we’ll be dry and mild Sunday and Monday with highs near 60.

In U.S. News….Multiple record high temperatures were broken the other day. In fact it was a large amount. This is impacting many people and businesses across the eastern U.S. Here is an article with some of the specific numbers: Many record high temperatures broken.

The recent heat over the south central U.S. has been contributing to large wildfires in Texas. One of them is now the second largest in state history.

Meanwhile, on the west coast they getting slammed by another storm system. Some locations over the mountains of California are expecting 10 feet of snow. Yes 10 FEET. Here is the article with more information on that: Big California Snow.

Meteorologist: Jeremy Wheeler