GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY SATURDAY! COLD FRONT HAS MOVED THROUGH AND TEMPERATURES ARE DROPPING. REAL FEELS HAVE QUICKLY DROPPED TO THE 30S. DESPITE MAINLY CLEAR SKIES TOD

We’re talking about cold fronts that mean business! The high temperature on Wednesday was in the middle 40s, right around midnight, before temperatures fell through the day and gusty northerly winds brought in colder air. Temperatures look to moderate Thursday and Friday before another push of cooler air this weekend.

Friday’s cold front brings in much colder air to Central Texas for Saturday. We expect a freeze in the Hill Country Saturday morning. Highs on Saturday will only reach the 50s. Saturday night into Sunday morning will bring a widespread freeze and likely our coldest morning of the winter season so far.

To help residents stay safe, the City of Corpus Christi will open an Overnight Warming Shelter at the FEMA Dome at Del Mar College’s Windward Campus 5pm Saturday.

A cold front is moving through Southeast Texas early Saturday. Breezy winds and low humidity behind the front raise the risk of wildfires over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service in Lake Charles.

Another cold front is set to move through Central NC later Saturday, bringing colder temperatures on Sunday with highs near 40.

On the morning of Jan. 16, according to the weather service, Fort Pierce tied a record low temperature of 32 degrees, last set in 1978. Vero Beach reached a low temperature of 34 degrees. The record low for Jan. 16 in Vero Beach is 31 degrees, said meteorologist Megan Tollefsen. It’s normally in the lower 50s this time of the year.

A blast of winter weather was set to bring snowfall and subfreezing wind chills across the Midwest and East Coast on Saturday as well as near freezing temperatures in parts of the South, including in normally warm Florida.