000 AWUS44 KEWX 142204 SWSTX SOUTH TEXAS WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN / SAN ANTONIO TX 405 PM CST TUE JAN 14 2003 WITH A DOMINANT HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM IN PLACE, CLOUDS COVERED THE SKIES EARLY THIS MORNING THROUGHOUT SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS BUT SOON BEGAN TO BREAK THIS AFTERNOON BRINGING IN SUNSHINE. CLOUDS ARE STILL LINGERING IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. CONDITIONS AS OF 3 PM CONSISTED OF TEMPERATURES RANGING FROM 45 DEGREES IN CONROE TO 61 DEGREES IN SAN ANTONIO. WINDS WERE RELATIVELY CALM WITH THE HIGHEST SPEED REACHING 9 MPH AT PORT ARTHUR. CLOUDS WILL INCREASE LATE THIS EVENING AND DENSE FOG WILL BEGIN TO SETTLE IN EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. CLOUDY SKIES WILL CLEAR UP WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES CLOSE TO NORMAL. A COLD ARCTIC AIR MASS WILL BE MOVING IN THURSDAY AND WILL BRING COLDER TEMPERATURES WITH LOWS PLUMMETING INTO THE 20S THROUGH SUNDAY. AFTER THE COLD SPELL PUSHES THROUGH, A WARMING TREND WILL APPEAR EARLY NEXT WEEK.