Get ready for a cool down today and the rest of the week. Clouds will roll into the area with a high of 40 today. The overnight low will be 26. The weather is the big story as the temperature will drop in the coming days with the possibility of a ‘measureable snow’ beginning on Wednesday evening and continuing into Thursday. The rain-snow mix is expected to last into Friday, according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. A forecast Monday afternoon showed some areas of North Texas getting between 2 to 5 inches of snow with isolated areas further west possibly getting up to 8 inches of accumulation during the winter storm; Fans traveling to Arlington this week for the Cotton Bowl game may be met with wintery weather conditions. The Cotton Bowl at AT&T Stadium will be the site of the College Football Playoff semifinal game between Texas and Ohio State, which kicks off Friday at 6:30 p.m.; well into the fall semester, New Hope Christian Academy in Plano abruptly announced it would cease operations, sending families scrambling to find a new school and leaving teachers unpaid and confused. Former staffers say the school had about 75 students from pre-K through 12th grades; And according to Southern Living magazine, Babe’s Chicken Dinner House is one of the best Southern restaurants in the country.

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