Patchy dense fog could make the morning drive quite a chore -- be careful out there as visibility might be less than a mile on your path to work or school.  A DENSE FOG ADVISORY is in effect until 9 a.m.  By afternoon, we expect some partial sunshine and high temps in the mid to upper 60s.  

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As we watch one disturbance moving away from Texas, another approaches from the west.  With it comes a 30% chance for showers by late afternoon/evening and continuing through the night.  There's just enough instability in the atmosphere to possibly support a few rumbles of thunder tonight, especially east of I-35, though most of this rain event will be fairly light.

Our in-house Futurecast model shows hit-or-miss rain from around 6 p.m. through 6 a.m. tomorrow.  The odds drop to 20% during the day tomorrow, and we think skies will gradually turn from clouds to sun as drier air from the west arrives.

The upper-air disturbance moves east by tomorrow night and a cold front will sweep south in its wake, bringing a strong northwest wind into the area for Thursday.  It'll be notably cooler and drier, and we can anticipate plenty of mountain cedar pollen to be stirred up once again.  Northwest winds could gust up around 30 to 40 mph during the day.

Look for lots of sunshine as we wrap up the week with daytime highs slightly above normal (62) for the Winter Solstice on Friday, which marks the start of astronomical (or "calendar") winter at 4:23 p.m.  It's the "shortest day" of the year by sunlight minutes.

After starting with some morning chill, temps will rebound to near 70 come Saturday before yet another cold front arrives in the middle of our weekend.  We expect it to arrive without any rainfall, with a drop in temps back to low 60s for Sunday and Monday.  

As it looks now, we see a slim but noted rain chance in the works for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with highs back up into the mid and upper 60s on Tuesday.  

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--Chief Meteorologist Burton Fitzsimmons (@Burton_Spectrum)