Don’t blink or you’ll miss next week’s cold front

much-anticipated cold front is heading to South Florida on Wednesday — but it won’t be cold and it’s expected to last only a day and a half.

Still, it will give South Florida a break from summer-like humidity, even though the temperatures will be still be in the low 80s during the day. The nights, however, should be in the upper 60s.

Meanwhile, forecasters at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center released the U.S. Winter Outlook on Thursday. The bottom line: South Florida is probably looking at a warmer, drierthan-usual winter this year.

Thank the possible emergence of the La Nina pattern for that.

“Typical La Nina patterns during winter include above-average precipitation and colderA than-average temperatures along the Northern Tier of the U.S. and below normal precipitation and drier conditions across the South,” said Mike Halpert, deputy director of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center.

Until next week’s cold front gets here, South Florida will continue to see daytime highs in the mid to upper 80s and overnight lows in the low to upper 70s.

Every day will see a chance of rain, with those chances ranging between 30 percent and 50 percent each day.

Through the end of this week, the chance of rain will increase from 30 percent Thursday, to 40 percent riday, to a 50 percent chance on Saturday, and finally back down to a 40 percent chance on Sunday.

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