Lows in the 40s, wind chill in the 30s

Good Monday morning, everybody. Meteorologist, Jim Dickey back with you here on this Monday morning for another edition of Web Weather. Man. It’s chilly out there. Uh, you know, since we, uh, saw *** cold front move through late last week, we’ve had the steady flow of chilly air. Both mornings of the weekend were down in the low fifties across much of southwest Florida. This morning, we saw more forties not quite to our seasonal low temperature. Ponte Goa fell to 47. The seasonal low, 45 49 seasonal low, 48 Naples one degree above that seasonal low here too. But I do think those numbers, those seasonal lows will, uh, be changed out in the coming days. This is not just gonna be *** one off the next, uh, two mornings even colder than what we saw out there this morning here as chilly air has entrenched itself. It’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Now, there’s *** look right now. So I approached 9 48 45 that is here in the morning recording this for you at Pont Gorda Airport. That spot that fell to 47. We’ve already rebounded by about five degrees. We’re back in the low fifties now. But *** couple of things to point out here first, the dew point all the way down to 35 degrees. It speaks to the source of this air mass. This is an Arctic air mass, bone dry. Uh, we only see the dew points that low here on *** handful of days along the Gulf coast here in Florida. Uh, humidity values right, about 50% with those very low dew points. Uh So again, the air is just about as dry as it ever feels. And then that right there is gonna be the key to today. We have *** north northeast wind at 15 MPH. Anytime that wind kicks in, you feel it, there is *** bike to that wind, I promise you that because air coming out of the north means it’s this air flowing in. Look at how cold it is across the lower 48 temperatures in the twenties, up and down the I 95 corridor 16 in Chicago. And that’s not even the coldest air out there. The uh north central portions of the country, the upper Midwest seeing numbers in the single digits rapid city, South Dakota at six degrees right now, Denver is still in the teens. It’s been brutally cold over the last week, two weeks in Denver that chilly air continues to flow from north and west to south and east. Keeping the eastern half of the country cold going forward. And yes, that’s sort of our source region for our cold air here too. You see how the air is flowing into Florida. It’s that perfect orientation for the winds to *** vex cold air into Florida because you’re not getting much of an easterly component of the winds which will warm up the air mass moving over the Atlantic. You’re not getting much of *** westerly component that would warm up the air as it moves over the relatively warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Rather, it’s *** straight shot with that cold air right down the Florida Peninsula, right in, uh to southwest Florida, keeping numbers uh below average throughout the day. Here today, on top of that, we’re gonna keep those winds fairly strong. So even through the afternoon, if you’re in the full sun, it’s gonna feel ok to you. But anytime that wind kicks up, you’re gonna feel the chill in the air. It’s one of those days, one of those rare days where you probably want at least *** light coat with you all day long. Temperatures only back in the low seventies in the Fort Myers area, despite clear and sunny skies. Again, we keep that wind out of the north in place all day long, limiting just how warm we can get. Here’s our uh forecast model, the temperatures there it goes, it’s basically the highest today, *** few of us like Arcadia, like Sanibel, like Clewiston held in the sixties, right at 70 elsewhere, low seventies and Collier *** little bit warmer, but once the sun begins to fall in the sky, after 334 and 430 temperatures fall quickly. There’s seven o’clock, we’re back down in the fifties already, temperatures will have every opportunity to continue to fall going through the rest of the evening and there you go. Now, the question is tonight, how strong will the winds be? We sort of saw this play out this morning. Some of the models showing, uh, numbers in the low forties this morning were way off when you have winds like we will, we’ll have *** 10 to 15 mile per hour wind continuing through the night. It keeps the atmosphere sort of churned up. It keeps you from maximizing, uh, radiative cooling, which would allow us to fall to these lower forties, perhaps even some spots in the thirties early tomorrow morning. But if you keep the winds *** little bit stronger, mixed up the atmosphere, more of us will hold on to the mid and even upper forties. But compound with that, you have *** 10 to 15 mile per hour wind. Now, you’re talking about the wind chill factor because it makes it feel colder outside to you, to your skin as you’re out and about. So these are the windshield values. Uh, the model windshield showing *** number of spots, especially along and east of 75 feeling like it’s in the thirties early tomorrow morning. So any way you cut it tomorrow morning is going to be *** chilly one Wednesday morning will be two, both mornings. We’re talking low temperatures in the mid to low forties. Some spots could even see the thirties, windshield values in the thirties. So you’re gonna want those heavier coats, the winter gear, you’ll need them the next couple of mornings. You know, you keep it in your closet all year long for these handful of mornings. These are *** few of them that we’re gonna be dealing with, uh, early here in this December. But from there temperatures do rebound. Low fifties, Thursday morning, back to the upper fifties for Friday and Saturday and the numbers back in the sixties by Sunday and Monday, high temperatures, uh, will be pushing back toward 80 by the time we get to the weekend as well. So we’ll get through it. We’ll warm up before long as we always do here in, uh, Florida and then you take *** look at the rain totals. Nothing. We’re gonna keep it dry throughout the next seven days. I don’t think there’s *** single drop of rain anywhere along the Gulf coast, uh, as we head through this first full week of the month of December, so chilly but dry, plenty of sunshine but still feeling cool even during the afternoon, that’s what we’ll be dealing with over these next couple of days. Uh, so be sure you, uh, have those coats with you. You’ll likely need them, especially during the early morning hours. I’ll have *** full update on your forecast. Dive in on some of those low temperatures region wide here over the next couple of days. Coming up in just *** couple of minutes on more in the morning at nine. Hope to see you then.