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KEY MESSAGES

Issued at 1201 AM CST Thu Jan 29 2026

- Today will be our warmest day until next week as another surge of very cold Arctic air pushes into our Four-State area tonight. Melting of lingering ice and snow will continue. - Bitterly cold temperatures will impact our entire area again Friday Night with a wind chilly Saturday and colder overnight. People, pipes, pets, and plants need to be protected from the hazardous cold.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 1054 AM CST Thu Jan 29 2026

Temperatures are thankfully climbing well above freezing again today with departing clouds allowing for more ice-melting sunshine this afternoon. Highs should mainly be in the 50s today and just a bit shy of climatological averages for the date. Unfortunately, temperatures will be trending back down after today as another cold front slides through the region from west to east tonight. This system will bring another round of clouds in tonight and this should help hold the temperatures up some compared to the last few nights. Many locations across central and northern zones may actually not quite get down to freezing tonight, which is a (temporary) minor achievement! There is enough moisture and lift with the system tonight to perhaps get a few regular rain showers in our far north, but the potential for any impactful wintry precipitation is very low.

This initial front will not carry extremely cold air back into the region for the daytime Friday, although a good deal of clouds should likely hold high temperatures in the 40s for most areas tomorrow. But this initial front sets the stage for another arctic blast starting to move into the area from the north tomorrow night. Gusty north winds behind this secondary front will be dropping temperatures and wind chills quickly Friday night with a wind chill range of near zero in the far north to around 15 degrees F in the far south come daybreak Saturday. Actual air temperatures by that time will range from near 10 degrees F in the far north to the lower 20s in the far south. This level of cold fits with Cold Weather Advisory criteria across our whole area and this advisory will go from midnight tomorrow night through noon Saturday. Highs Saturday will mainly range from the low to mid 30s under full sunshine, but at least slackening winds by later Saturday will produce less of a wind chill. Lows Saturday night will be mostly in the 15 to 20 degree range. One other thing to mention with the arrival of the secondary arctic cold front - some light and non impactful snow flurries will be possible, mainly across the ArkLaMiss region later Friday night into early Saturday morning.

A gradual warming trend will commence Sunday with highs Sunday in the 40s, mainly in the 50s Monday, and potentially even seeing the 60 degree mark reach in some southern areas on Tuesday. Lows by Tuesday morning should mainly be above freezing in most areas, aside from far northern and eastern zones. Clouds should be on the quick increase on Tuesday as another system and related cold front moves in. Right now, chances are relatively high that this round of precipitation should be all rain from later Tuesday through Wednesday night with seasonably chilly air likely coming back in in the wake of this system. There is still a bit of uncertainty regarding precipitation type with this system in our far north and we will be monitoring the potential for any brief window of wintry precip types closely with this system as we go through the rest of the week and into the weekend. /50/

AVIATION

(18Z TAFS) Issued at 1240 PM CST Thu Jan 29 2026

For the 29/18z TAF period...VFR conditions will remain across the region for the next several hours with some passing high clouds. Eventually, a cold front will move into the region after sunset this evening. This could bring us some low clouds and reduced flight categories, with some slight rain chances at the all the TAF sites, except the ones across East Texas. The low clouds will hang around through the remainder of the TAF period, with NNW winds gusting as high as 20 mph. /20/

SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT

Issued at 1201 AM CST Thu Jan 29 2026

Spotter activation is not anticipated through this weekend. /24/

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS

SHV 58 35 47 21 / 0 0 0 0 MLU 54 35 44 19 / 0 0 0 0 DEQ 52 26 44 11 / 0 10 0 0 TXK 55 34 45 17 / 0 10 0 0 ELD 55 31 42 15 / 0 10 0 10 TYR 57 30 47 19 / 0 0 0 0 GGG 58 31 47 19 / 0 0 0 0 LFK 61 34 50 24 / 0 0 0 0

SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

AR...Cold Weather Advisory from midnight Friday night to noon CST Saturday for ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073.

LA...Cold Weather Advisory from midnight Friday night to noon CST Saturday for LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022.

OK...Cold Weather Advisory from midnight Friday night to noon CST Saturday for OKZ077.

TX...Cold Weather Advisory from midnight Friday night to noon CST Saturday for TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153- 165>167.