After the coldest air of the season hits Florida on Friday night, rain will be returning to the Gulf Coast this Sunday.
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00:00we're going to be keeping an eye out for some changes brewing. Overall, we're
00:03looking at the arrival of some widespread rain. I know you're gonna be
00:06jumping in on some of this in the south central and I'll talk about the
00:09southeast impacts coming our way. Yeah, it's another kind of split forecast
00:13impacting multiple regions here over the next couple of days. Well, two big
00:17stories that we continue to attract this friday evening. The first in the
00:20nation's southern states, the lingering chill on the heels of that historic
00:24snowfall. That cold weather was also the cause for this mornings and every
00:29morning. This week's slippery commute for travelers. In the meantime,
00:32southern California fire crews continue to struggle to contain several wild
00:36fires in the region. There is good news though. We're tracking some much needed
00:39rain just in time for the weekend. We'll details on that coming up. But
00:44first, let's take you to a live look at new Orleans, Louisiana. This is a view
00:47we've been pulling up a lot over the last couple of days and take a look at
00:50that sunset over the traffic. Yeah, very nice. Not bad there at all. Louisiana
00:57D. O. T. Still keeping a small portion of I 10 closed actually. But overall
01:02this morning's snow covered data still showing a decent amount of it out
01:05there. But a beautiful sunset at least it's going to be cold tonight. We'll
01:09talk about how low we go. But again, some of the reports here along the I
01:1210 just amazing 8.9 inches of snow earlier this week in Pensacola. Some of
01:16the snow cover still survives in through this friday night. The
01:20satellite radar combination. There's a cold front moving off through extreme
01:24south florida. A secondary stripe of clouds behind the front behind that.
01:28It's going to get colder tonight and we're going to have in fact for some
01:32parts of florida, the coldest night so far this season. We're still at 57 in
01:36Miami. So the drop has yet to really occur there. But we're almost down to
01:40freezing in Nashville right now. And there's that footage from Pensacola
01:44with snow covering the beaches and the palm trees. Really cool stuff. But the
01:49coldest of the season for central florida will be tonight with readings
01:54down to 37 in Orlando, 38 degrees into Fort Myers. Very nippy out there, 25
01:59in Jacksonville, upper teens in Tallahassee and Savannah 22. How does
02:04this stack up to the records? We're going to be close, maybe not fully
02:08committed to breaking or tying true records for the date, but we're going
02:11to be within about a degree of that in Fort Myers. The record was set just 22
02:16years ago at 37. We're taking it down to 38 tomorrow morning. Puerto Gorda
02:20record is 34 from that same day. 22 years ago, we're looking at 36 Lakeland,
02:24florida 32. We're forecasting 35 will be about three degrees off of the
02:29record there in to Savannah and Albany Georgia as well. But it's cold out
02:34there. Low twenties in Savannah and Albany. As we take a look at the overall
02:38saturday forecast cold start, no two ways about it. Very cold to begin, but
02:42the sunshine is going to be a little more effective in warming things up and
02:46beginning to melt more of that snow off of the gulf coast. And you can see on
02:49sunday, here comes the moisture streaming in. This initially is more of
02:54a texas and Louisiana impact, but eventually the steering flow will drive
02:58some of that moisture up into Mississippi, into Alabama, Tennessee
03:02and on sunday night, look out for a little bit of a narrow zone where there
03:06could be some mix of rain, snow and ice in parts of I 40s journey through
03:10middle and eastern Tennessee. Ground is still refrigerated and during the day
03:14tomorrow we bounce back nicely and we'll begin to see some moisture stream
03:18into the gulf coast of texas. Yeah, maybe a return to business as usual
03:21here with temperatures in the sixties, the fifties and rain rather than snow
03:26in the forecast. Take a look at how this plays out. It's gonna be real wet
03:30out there and we'll have to keep an eye out for maybe some fog forming where
03:33the ground is still cold with some lingering snow. Even before the rain
03:37rolls in, the dew points gonna rise above freezing. So we'll have kind of
03:40an instant cloud form advection fog. We see this in the midwest, the
03:44northeast, whenever we get a mild spell with snow on the ground, you're not
03:48used to that though in Louisiana. So you could see some fog out there at
03:50times this weekend. One thing you are used to maybe some isolated downpours
03:54and some thunderstorms in the darker green shaded regions between those two
03:57things, just something to keep in mind with travel, especially the fog could
04:01reduce visibility.