HOUSTON – A wedged cold front is currently bringing both spring and winter to SE Texas this week.
What’s happening?
A stalled cold front is planted on top of the center of SE Texas and the contrast between the two sides of the front is quite pronounced. Think of it like a winter/spring sandwich!
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Check out the temperature contrasts from Wednesday morning:
Quite the difference if you started your drive in Angleton with the A/C turned on and short sleeves, then arrived in Brenham with the seat warmers on and looking for a jacket!
So what gives? We’re stuck between two airmasses, with neither one moving much over the next few hours. The dividing line is a stalled cold front, running parallel to the SW Fwy.
Generally, when cold fronts push into SE Texas, they move the more humid airmass back out into the Gulf and we get the cooler air that moves in behind the front.
However, that means that something has to actually MOVE the front. Therein lies the problem this week, there hasn’t been a push of colder air this far south, so the front, with nothing to nudge it, remains basically frozen in place.
As the storm that is attached to the front finally lifts into Arkansas, it will finally push the front into Louisiana and allow for the colder air to move in for a chilly but much drier Thursday and Friday.
