ABC-7 First Alert: Nice today, a late weekend storm will bring rain, wind, and cold air

We have a First Alert for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Today, we started the day out at 44 degrees and topped out at 81 degrees. Today high is one degree shy of the 1981 record of 82.

Tonight we are expected to drop into the 40s.

Here's the timeline for this weekend. Saturday evening, winds will begin to pick up and could get up to 35 miles per hour ahead of our cold front. The winds will calm down Sunday morning as the cold front arrives, but then we will see scattered to widespread rain across the Borderland. Then on Monday, winds will kick up again and this time winds could get up to 45 miles per hour.

There's a few factors that contribute to this change in weather, we have a cold front that will be arriving late Saturday evening. Ahead of this cold front, it will be windy. Once the cold front passes, the winds will calm down and an upper-level low will form over the Big Bend Region of Texas which will bring lowland rain and mountain snow throughout Sunday. We will then be on the windy end of this system on Monday as it exits the Borderland. After this system clears out of the region it will be cooler and calm this coming week.