A cold front will come through Wednesday, knocking temperatures down for Thanksgiving and Black Friday.

We’ll have one more unseasonably warm day on Wednesday out ahead of the front. Lows will bottom out to around 60° in the morning, some 15° above normal (but not quite a record warm low temperature, either). We’ll warm to the mid-to-upper 70s roughly around midday before a broken (and weakening) line of showers running out ahead of the front passes through roughly between 10am-2pm. The front itself will lag the showers by an hour or two, but should be through in the 3-4 PM timeframe, marked by a westerly wind shift and increasingly drier air pushing into the area. The colder air will lag a bit more, but once winds get around to the northwest after dark, we’ll start to see that spill in as well.

Temperatures on Thanksgiving morning will bottom out around the mid-40s — much cooler than lows over the past few days. Despite full sunshine, the high will only peak around 60° as cool high pressure continues to build into the area. Temperatures will fall quickly after sunset, with frost and freeze conditions possible Friday morning, particularly away from the coast, as we cool off into the low 30s across much of the metro. Highs Friday only peak in the low-to-mid-50s with another day of nearly unfettered sunshine as temperatures at about 5,000 feet drop well below freezing.

This colder air starts to depart Saturday with a little moderation for Sunday, but we will also see a storm system come in with a more substantial rain chance as we kick off December.