Thursday Afternoon Thoughts...

Chief Meteorologist Craig Carnesi here...

Wow, what a day across the Big Country. Snyder has only warmed up to 64 degrees so far this afternoon, Sweetwater is at 70, Abilene is at 74, Brownwood is at 75 and Comanche has only warmed to 72.

Unfortunately, the cool down will be short-lived. As we mentioned before, winds will come back around to the South by sunrise tomorrow, and that combined with more sunshine, afternoon highs will climb back into the middle 80s.

There will be a slight to 30% chance of thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon. Low level moisture has been a little stronger to return to South Texas after the front, and we expect the moisture to build back in to the Big Country starting tomorrow morning. In fact, we may see our overnight low temperature sometime around the 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. timeframe. Temperatures may actually start to warm back up before sunrise depending upon when the winds shift back around to the Southeast.

Back to the rain, the Storm Prediction Center has put the Northern Big Country under a slight risk of severe storms. Again, this will all depend on how quickly the moisture returns.

We will keep a 20-30% chance of rain through the overnight hours Friday into Saturday and then only a slight chance of a few storms Saturday.

This is definately a different forecast than we chatted about yesterday, again, this is one of those instances where the computer models are continuing to go back and forth on our rain chances.

For now though, the only football games I see threatened for delays will be North of an Anson to Snyder line. No need to sweat just yet, this could all change once again later tonight or tomorrow morning.

I'll post again later this evening...