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KEY MESSAGES

Issued at 1210 PM CST Wed Dec 31 2025

- S/SW winds will make for a nice warm-up through this week.

- Slight chance for a brief shower or drizzle with a weak upper disturbance,followed by a cool front arriving on Friday.

- Slightly cooler weekend, but still above average. Little if any rainfall will renew concerns for wildfires and drought monitor.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 1210 PM CST Wed Dec 31 2025

Northwest flow aloft this morning with clear skies. The closet cirrus is riding the NW flow from the TX/OK panhandles down across the TX coastal bend. We do have SW surface flow building from the ground up, now that the chilly air mass of late has largely eased out into the NW Gulf of America at 1028mb noted on rigs offshore. This SW flow will make for a nice warming trend in the short term with lows picking up about 10 degrees from this morning's frosty start, and will continue to climb into the 50s. Highs will do better with warm SW winds and head into the 70s for New Year's Day and Friday.

The weak upper disturbance in the soon to be developing zonal flow aloft, will generate a little lift late Thursday and early Friday ahead of the front. Ideally, we want the upper trough stacked behind the front, and is part of the reason little rain is expected. Any chance at ground wetting showers may keep to our I-30 corridor and north, but some drizzle may fall from low decks lifting early on Friday down to along I-20. Our surface winds will gently shift back to north late on Friday and bring back closer to normal 60s for highs this weekend. Some mixing early Saturday should hang on to 50s for lows, but cooler 40s will round out the weekend Sunday morning.

The return to school/work week will keep average early January lows in the 40s going, but see 50s again by Tuesday. Our highs will get back into the low to mid 70s during this same time. No rainfall of widespread measure until after the first week of the new year. The latest Drought Monitor is showing a return of D2 (Severe Drought) into SW McCurtain County and portions of Toledo Bend Country into CenLA. /24/

AVIATION

(00Z TAFS) Issued at 517 PM CST Wed Dec 31 2025

VFR conditions will continue through the 01/00Z TAF period. SKC will prevail through much of the evening/overnight hours, although areas of cirrus will increase from the WNW across E TX later this evening, with cigs spreading elsewhere across the region by/after daybreak Thursday. These cigs will thicken by afternoon into the evening, and lower ahead of an approaching shortwave trough that will enter the region. SW winds 5kts or less tonight will increase to 8-10kts after 16Z. /15/

SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT

Issued at 1124 PM CST Tue Dec 30 2025

Spotter activation is not expected through the end of this week.

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS

SHV 42 70 56 78 / 0 0 10 0 MLU 39 68 51 75 / 0 0 0 10 DEQ 32 64 45 68 / 0 0 20 10 TXK 39 68 53 74 / 0 0 20 10 ELD 36 66 49 71 / 0 0 10 10 TYR 42 69 57 78 / 0 0 10 0 GGG 40 69 54 78 / 0 0 10 0 LFK 39 69 55 79 / 0 0 0 0

SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

AR...None. LA...None. OK...None. TX...None.