Warm Weather Remains, Rain Chances Later In The Week

From Meteorologist Jason Myers.........

Another nice day across the Big Country, especially for everyone involved with homecoming activities at the local universities. After starting off with a morning low temperature of 58 degrees the high reached 82 degrees. High Pressure will remain over east Texas giving us southerly flow, providing warm temperatures, with highs in the mid-80s Sunday through Wednesday. Skies should remain partly cloudy to mostly sunny. Wednesday night a cold front is projected to move across West Texas bringing a slight chance of a thunderstorm late Wednesday and a 20% chance of rain Thursday into the start of next weekend.

In the tropics, as of right now there is Tropical Depression #24 which is projected to become Hurricane Wilma by the beginning of the work week. TD 24 is located southwest of Jamaica and south of the Cayman Islands and Cuba. Winds are 30 mph with a southwest movement at 3 mph. Gulf Coast residents really need to keep an eye on this storm because it will be moving over very warm waters, and intensification into a major hurricane is a strong possibility. Right now a high pressure system over the Gulf of Mexico is keeping TD 24 from moving north, yet this should begin to weaken, allowing TD 24 to turn north headed toward the Gulf Coast states.

Also, Sunday night take some time to go outside and get a peak at the full moon known in the month of October as the "Hunter's Moon" or the "Blood Moon". It's called the "Blood Moon" because the moon has a red or "blood" tint to it due to a partial lunar eclipse. The greatest partial lunar eclipse will be at 12:03 UT or around 7 am our time.