Sunday Night Rain

Chief Meteorologist Craig Carnesi here...

Showers and thunderstorms are working their way through the Big Country tonight thanks to upper level energy.

We talked about this a bit last week. A deep trough in the jet stream has developed in the Southwest and is moving our direction. Fast moving air about 30,000 feet up will round the base of that trough and speed up directly over West Texas. The first of these "disturbances" is what is responsible for our showers and thunderstorms tonight.

This upper-level trough will be around the area for the first half of the week as well. With more disturbances passing though, we will see a few wet days this week. These disturbances are very hard to predict time-wise. So exactly when we will see the rain during the week is uncertain. We will continue to see showers though, with at least a few embedded thunderstorms.

Afternoon highs this week will remain at or just below average. Our average high temperature is 82-81 degrees this week. Overnight lows will run above the 57 degree average for this time of year.

Looking just beyond the extended forecast, next weekend so far looks dry with seasonal temperatures.

Please, go out and make it a GREAT day!