Dangerously cold wind chills on Thursday morning

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) –  The rain moved out of the ArkLaTex just as a very cold arctic airmass has moved in. Temperatures will be 25 to 30 degrees below normal for this time of year on Thursday despite the return of some sunshine. 

Dangerously cold wind chills: Temperatures on Thursday will not be the coldest of the winter but they could get rather close in a few spots.  Lows Thursday morning will begin in the teens and low 20s.  It will stay rather breezy Thursday night.  That wind will combine with the cold to produce wind chills in the single digits. Typically during the middle of February high temperatures are in the low to middle 60s.  Highs on Thursday will mainly be in the mid to upper 30s! 

A brief round of sunshine:  Futurecast shows that the clouds that have lingered through much of today will begin to decrease Wednesday night.  We will see a mostly sunny sky on Thursday followed by a clear to partly cloudy sky on Thursday night.  Clouds will quickly return to our area on Friday as a warming trend will finally begin.

Spring returns next week! Your 10-day forecast shows that the warming trend that begins on Friday will accelerate during the weekend.  Daytime highs will warm into the upper 50s to near 60 by Sunday.  Highs next week will begin in the 70s and return to the 60s late in the week. Overnight lows will begin the period in the teens and low 20s on both Thursday and Friday mornings.  They will warm into the 40s and 50s by the middle of next week.  Our next and only chance of rain will arrive this weekend with most of any rain falling on Saturday night into Sunday.