Record cold, snow & ice is occurring over the Plains & Northern to eastern Rockies.
However, we will not see it. It is being held back by southeastern ridge & a pattern that will tend to continue through winter & into spring with bitter cold & snow northwest of our area & milder, wet weather here & points southeastward.
This is the earliest Ice Storm Warning on record to be issued in Oklahoma. Ice accretion up to 0.5" may occur on fully-foliated trees, resulting in widespread, significant tree damage & numerous power outages. Parts of will drop into the single digits to 0 early this week.
Meanwhile, overnight lows in Atlanta will not drop below the 60s.
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Showers & drizzle with some fog will be with us tonight & through tomorrow morning with lows tonight 35-41 with a very light northeast wind.
A few flakes & sleet may mix along & west of a Wheatfield to Earl Park line.
Showers/drizzle/fog exit tomorrow, followed by cloudy skies that may have a few breaks in places late in the day. Highs of 46-52 are likely with a light west-northwest wind.
Additional rainfall of 0.05-0.35" is expected north to south.
Partly cloudy skies with patchy fog & some frost is likely tomorrow night with lows 31-36.
Wednesday looks nice with southwest wind 10-20 mph (after patchy morning fog & some partly cloudy skies of low clouds) & highs 57-63. Increasing clouds will occur later in the day.
Rain is likely Thursday with an east to northeast wind & 50s as the remnants of Hurricane Zeta combined with an upper low moves through the Tennessee & Ohio Valleys.
60s & 70s with some sun on the right quadrant of the system will result in t'storm with isolated tornado risk from far southern Indiana to Tennessee.
This system looks to bring us 0.70-1.50" of rainfall.
Near to record warmth may occur in multiple occasions in the first half of November with a couple rounds of storms (severe weather risk too).
One brief cool snap may occur around November 11, but we may have to wait until after November 20 for a good hard freeze.
Wind will blow many leaves down, but this weather support a long-lasting fall color season that is cut short in some years by hard freezes.