A weak cold front slid through the Houston area and promises a slightly cooler, more typical, Thursday. The cold front pushed through dry late Wednesday, with hardly a cloud in the sky to give a clue that something in the atmosphere was changing.

An Arctic front is closing in on Texas, with wind chills expected to plunge near zero as the system moves through the Houston area this weekend. Meteorologists across southeast Texas have said the storm is unlikely to bring the same level of devastation as Winter Storm Uri,