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KEY MESSAGES

Issued at 1157 AM CST Thu Jan 1 2026

- Updated high temps for this afternoon with lots of sunshine.

- Clouds will thicken and lower overnight with a few showers associated with a weak upper disturbance and a cool front.

- Northerly winds will cool temperatures slightly for the weekend, with warmer southerly winds returning by Monday.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 1157 AM CST Thu Jan 1 2026

A nice warm afternoon to begin the new year with air temps in the low to mid and upper 60s at the noon hour. This southwest wind has built upwards from the surface yesterday, to about 7kft today and then veers to W/NW flow. A weak disturbance of low pressure will swing down the Red River Valley overnight and may bring a few showers along our I-30 corridor. This activity will spread eastward across south Arkansas early on Friday as the cool front shifts the SW wind to light NW before sunset to I-30. Winds will shift to NW across I-20 and our southern tier overnight and early on Saturday as clouds backdoor in for a cooler day.

Models are a little glitchy with some light QPF right under the primary upper disturbance at daybreak on Saturday behind the front, could be just drizzle. High temperatures will keep to the 60s both days this weekend. While, our lows will see more flux, ranging from mid 40s to mid 50s across the area on Saturday, then falling to mid 30s to mid 40s for Sunday morning, under once again fair skies. The N/NE winds on Sunday will be shifting back to SE for Monday and renew a warmer trend ahead.

We can expect the S/SW winds continuing into midweek, providing another nice warm up to well above the average of upper 50s, with a nice range of 70s in the wake of the 1026mb weekend airmass. Our next system will be bringing a deep upper trough off of the Pacific. While the work and school week with be warming and dry, our next weekend toward mid month, will have a good chance for some much needed widespread rainfall with deeper and wetter Pacific SW flow aloft. /24/

AVIATION

(00Z TAFS) Issued at 548 PM CST Thu Jan 1 2026

VFR conditions will continue this evening, although some AC cigs will gradually develop and spread E beneath thickening cirrus cigs ahead of a shortwave trough now entering W TX that will traverse the Srn Plains. However, a developing SWrly LLJ ahead of this trough will yield MVFR cig development over portions of SE TX/SW LA later this evening, which should spread NE into portions of Lower Toledo Bend Country into NCntrl LA after 06Z Friday. These cigs may briefly affect LFK after 09Z, with the highest confidence affecting the MLU/ELD terminals between 11-13Z. These lower cigs may stay just S and E of SHV/TXK, although low VFR cigs may develop here by mid to late morning before scattering out for the afternoon. The lower cigs over NCntrl LA/Srn AR should lift/become VFR by midday/early afternoon, with drier SWrly low level winds gradually eroding the cu field over portions of NCntrl LA through the afternoon. However, low VFR cigs should persist through the afternoon over much of Srn AR before slowly spreading S late Friday night behind a cold front. SSW 5-10kts tonight will become SW 9-13kts after 16Z, with gusts to 25kts over E TX/NW LA. /15/

SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT

Issued at 1124 PM CST Wed Dec 31 2025

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

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS

SHV 56 79 51 66 / 10 10 0 0 MLU 52 75 52 62 / 10 10 10 0 DEQ 47 69 45 63 / 20 10 0 0 TXK 54 75 50 64 / 20 10 0 0 ELD 50 72 46 59 / 20 10 0 0 TYR 58 77 49 67 / 10 0 0 0 GGG 55 78 47 67 / 10 0 0 0 LFK 55 79 49 69 / 0 0 0 0

SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

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