We’ll finish 2024 on a rather warm note before a cold front ushers in the first of what should be several rounds of cold air to start 2025.

Tuesday will get off to a foggy start, with dense fog possible before sunrise. If you encounter fog, be sure to use low beams and extra following distance. It’ll mix out quickly, though, and temperatures will soar into the low 70s in the afternoon ahead of the aforementioned cold front. Skies will generally run partly cloudy, and we’ll start to see a little clearing getting into the evening as the cold front gets by. You’ll want to have a jacket for any New Year’s Eve festivities you might be attending as temperatures will fall into the 50s by midnight behind the cold front.

Start of the new year: Turning cooler, but not absurdly so

With the frontal passage Tuesday night, 2025 gets off to a cooler-than-normal start with generally benign weather otherwise. We’ll start Wednesday in the mid-40s, but ongoing cool air advection behind the front will keep temperatures capped to the upper 50s to around 60° despite predominantly sunny skies.

The airmass settles in a bit more for Thursday, yielding a seasonably cool day with lows in the mid-30s warming to the mid-50s in the afternoon with mostly sunny conditions continuing. Friday will be a touch warmer, but otherwise a pretty good copy/paste from Thursday with another mid-30s start warming to the upper 50s in the afternoon under mostly sunny skies.

Looking ahead, a storm system affects the area early next week, bringing the first rain chance of 2025 for Monday. From there, temperatures should turn much colder, with colder-than-normal temperatures heavily favored at least through mid-month. We’re still outside the realm of being able to discuss specifics on just how cold, but model guidance certainly suggests we have a chilly January ahead. Stay tuned.

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