ORLANDO, Fla. – Thanksgiving will remain mild and just a little muggy despite the dry air we’ve had in place for the last several days.
As we go through turkey time today and into tonight, clouds may begin to increase as our first indications of our approaching cold front move in.
Tomorrow, especially midday Friday, we could see an increase in general showers across central Florida thanks to small upper trough rushing in just back behind the main cold push expected to pass through by the early evening hours. Winds will be mainly out of the southwest before quickly changing to a northwesterly direction as the front works through your area.
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Rain chances have climbed subtly, according to the latest data we have from our pinpoint forecast models. We can’t rule out the potential for a very isolated thunderstorm or two, thanks to the subtropical air marinating over Florida and to our south before the leading edge of that new cold air mass can come through.
If you happen to get some rain, these showers will likely linger to just ahead of sunset before we finally get a quick surge of drier, polar air from up north that will help to bully what’s left of that moisture out to our east, leaving us with partly cloudy to mostly clear skies just after the 7 or 8 p.m. time frame.
Believe it or not, there are two individual boundaries right up against one another that will take our temperatures down even further than what’s already expected this weekend! We have the main cold front which will arrive on Friday, followed by that weak upper level trough well above where we are at ground level that will essentially force even more cool air down through the peninsula.
As a result, Saturday and Sunday will indeed be back in the 40s and 50s to start the day and we will attempt to reach the low 70s by the “hottest” part of the afternoon. The keyword here is, “attempt.”
Once that trough can slide through the pattern ushering in the next dose of polar air, our temperatures will continue to drop as we go into Monday and Tuesday of next week. Make sure to grab those coats and bundle up the kids as they return from their first holiday break to avoid those cold temperatures and the wind chill that may still be in place early morning.
These cooler temperatures are forecast to linger across the Southeast United States well into the first full week of December, really helping to set the stage for the final countdown to Christmas and New Year’s Eve!
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