CCN Weather Update for Wednesday January 7, 2026.
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Here’s today’s Bottom Line:
We’re going to continue to experience unseasonably warm, springlike temperatures right through Saturday.
There’ll be considerable cloudiness through the entire period as well thanks to a front that will windshield-wiper over the area.
A backdoor cold front (called “backdoor” because it drops down from the north, instead of sweeping west to east)… will move south over the area late this afternoon into this evening. There’ll be a shift of winds and some colder temperatures late tonight into early Thursday. The front lifts back to the north as a warm front later on Thursday, allowing very warm (and rather humid) air to push over the area Friday and Saturday.
I still think we’re going to see lots of clouds Friday and Saturday but we should remain dry. Modeling has slowed down considerably on our frontal passage this weekend… now pushing it through Saturday night. This may still bring a few showers, but the trend is less and less in that regard. (There’s also still some variability in the modeling as far as the timing goes.) We may very well crack the 80-degree mark (!) on Saturday ahead of the front if we can get enough sunshine.
The deep, colder air mass will lag a little behind the front. Sunday should be a nice day, cooler, but dry. The colder trough then starts to dig in on Sunday night. Monday will feature SEASONABLE temperatures with lows in the lower 30s and highs in the lower to middle 50s.
Dry weather will then persist through at least the middle of the month before the possibility of a more active southern jet takes shape toward the 2nd half of January… as we approach the 1-year anniversary of our snowstorm (which was a southern-stream low). Repeat, anyone? No promises, but some of the models look kind of “fun” later in the month.
Here is your Freedom Insurance Today-plus-Five Forecast:
–Meteorologist Christopher Cawley
