Welcome Old Man ... Fall?

If you like cold weather, today's your day: Sure, it's 72 degrees out now, but just wait. The temperature will start falling in about an hour; by 10 a.m. it should be in the 50s, by noon it should be in the mid 40s and when you go to bed, the temperature will have dropped well into the 30s. It's the beginning of a few days of genuinely cool weather courtesy of an arctic front that has left the Midwest with extremely cold temperatures and the prospect of a lot of snow. (No, no snow for us — trust us, that's a good thing. Houstonians don't handle snow very well.)

The cold front will help bring things back to normal after our string of unusually warm late November days: Wednesday's high was 80, which came just shy of the record, 82, set in 1998.

So how cold will it get? Expect a low of 33 in the city tonight (which we assume means a freeze in the northern counties), with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s and lows in the 30s through the weekend. It's cool enough to put us in the holiday mood — and it should give us some nice memories for Christmas Day, when it'll probably be sunny and 85.