Talk about a wild weekend. Over the last three days, the area was blanketed with clouds, rain, and ice, and finally we're going to dry out this week. Many locations received between 2 and 6 inches of rainfall. In Garland county Arkansas, 9.07" was recorded near the Blakely Mountain Dam. Unfortunately, the cold air is coming to replace the wet weather, and we're talking unseasonably cold.

Temperatures will likely stay below freezing across NE OK and NW AR throughout Tuesday afternoon, especially if you have ice on the ground. Single digit lows are expected by Wednesday morning. To put this cold in perspective, average lows for this time of the year should be in the low to mid 20s with afternoon highs in the upper 40s and lower 50s. Even though we'll be running 10 to 15 degrees below normal, I don't feel that we'll set any records. The record low for Fayetteville on Wednesday is "1" set back in 1982.

As we look ahead, a storm system will drop across the West Coast; however, we're not looking for anything major to develop at this point. A few showers are possible by the weekend.