Cold And Wintry New Year’s Day Across Green Country

Bundle up! Some Arctic air is surging into Green Country to kick off the new year.

Temperatures are in freefall mode Saturday. In the Tulsa metro, we’ll drop into the 20s during the afternoon with stiff north winds pushing wind chills into the teens and single digits.

Any afternoon precipitation will be much lighter than what we had early this morning, but some patches of freezing drizzle will be possible across northeastern Oklahoma.

A secondary band of light to moderate snow will move across eastern Oklahoma later tonight, most likely from about the 9 p.m. to midnight timeframe. Any accumulation would be minor for most of us, but a few localized areas west and southwest of Tulsa could see a quick coating of ½” or so of snow on grassy surfaces.

That snow will taper off to flurries early Sunday morning with bitter cold conditions. We’ll have lows in the lower teens with wind chills below zero Sunday morning.

I hope you have a great New Year’s, Green Country! We’ll be keeping you updated throughout the day on our cold and wintry New Year’s. You can follow me on Twitter @StephenNehrenz as well as my Facebook page Meteorologist Stephen Nehrenz to stay up to date with the very latest.