Thunderstorms Back in the Forecast

From KRBC Chief Meteorologist Randy Turner ...

I'm writing this at 8:20pm Monday night, watching a line of thunderstorms on Triple Doppler Radar stretching from Snyder to north of Sterling City.

The line is moving east, showing signs of heavy rain, gusty wind, maybe some small hail. If it stays together, it could push into Abilene by midnight.

Our Tuesday weather feature will be the arrival of a weak cold front. In spite of the front not having any significant cold change with it, it will provide enough instability for a few showers and isolated thunderstorms. I'm forecasting a low tonight of 59 and a high Tuesday of 76.

I think Wednesday will be a mostly cloudy day with a high near 78, and we're simply waiting on the next thing to happen.

The next change comes Thursday, with the approach of an upper level low from the Southwest U.S., from Arizona northeastward toward the Texas Panhandle. That upper level high wind spinning through our atmosphere should spin up some thunderstorms anytime from Thursday afternoon, more likely Thursday night, into Friday morning.

And I'll go ahead and throw this out there ... some of the storms may become severe Thursday night, so we'll be here keeping a close eye on that for you.

More stormy weather on Friday but I think storms and rain gone to the northeast in time for Friday night football, at least that's how it looks right now.

We take Saturday off, just partly cloudy and close to 80, then introduce another slight chance for rain Sunday into Monday.

We're still waiting on that first really big and strong cold front to drastically drop temperatures. As of now, it's not to be found through the next ten days or so. The fronts we will see will keep temperatures in the 70's, instead of the 80's.

Take care, thanks for checking out the KRBC Weather Blog.

Randy