LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – A cold front is sliding through West Texas, and it’s setting the stage for a freezing night ahead.
But if you’re planning on watching the Geminid meteor shower, skies should cooperate early in the evening.
The front itself is delivering a new air mass into the region that will push out the warmer air we had before and replace it with a much colder, denser air mass.
This air was formed farther north, where December sun angles are lower and nights are longer, so it arrives pre-chilled. Once the front passes, temperatures drop quickly and winds will turn northeasterly and continue to pull in colder air through the evening and overnight.
That steady feed of cold air keeps temperatures dropping instead of levelling off after sunset. By early Sunday morning many of us will wake up to temperatures in the 20s and 30s, and will feel even colder with the wind chill factored in…