Overview
- National Weather Service guidance places Friday’s frontal passage across Texas from north to south, with the Panhandle in the early morning, North/Central by midday, and the Southeast and Gulf Coast later in the day.
- The Texas Panhandle holds the highest chance for wintry precipitation and near-freezing nights, with light snow accumulations most likely near Dalhart and a lower chance around Amarillo.
- A surge of unusually warm, tropical air over the central and southern U.S. is sharpening temperature contrasts, and forecasters flag an elevated risk of widespread severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes from Thursday into Friday across a Tennessee-to-Texas corridor and the Mississippi Valley.
- In Mexico, Nuevo León’s civil protection warns that Cold Front No. 27 arrives this weekend with drizzle, stronger winds and a marked cool-down, with single-digit Celsius lows by Sunday and colder early Monday.
- In Argentina, the SMN has yellow and orange alerts from Thursday as a deep low drives about 72 hours of persistent rain, strong winds and falling temperatures across central and northern provinces, with locally damaging gusts and flooding risk.