It was a raw, cold day for today with highs in the 50s and a steady northeast breeze. Temperatures will drop into the upper 40s/lower 50s for tonight with light showers and/or drizzle continuing. A warm front will lift across the area tomorrow, allowing temperatures to warm into the middle 60s and increasing rain chances once again. 

A low pressure area will develop across the south-central U.S. on Monday and quickly move northeast. This will swing yet another cool front through the area, giving us the possibility of storms New Years Eve during the day. Rain should end during the evening hours, before most of the New Years Eve festivities. 

A stronger wedge of Arctic air arrives on Tuesday, dropping temperatures quickly through Tuesday afternoon/night. 

This Arctic airmass will continue to filter in Wednesday at the surface, while upper-level energy moves over the area. This will setup the prospect of cold rains Wednesday and Thursday. Highs struggle to reach the mid-50s on Wednesday with steady light-to-moderate rain across the area. A repeat is expected on Thursday with highs hovering in the 40s. Earlier model indications were advertising a slight chance for frozen precipitation across northeastern Texas/northern Louisiana Wednesday morning and then again Thursday morning as temperatures were expected to hover near the freezing mark. Recent model runs have backed off on the strength of the cold air push, thus produce an all rain event across Louisiana through the Wednesday-Thursday timeframe. 

~Meteorologist Trevor Sonnier