Tuesday Morning Update

Good Morning from Morning Meteorologist Kristen Connolly…

Yesterday was another stormy day across the area. After a wet start with showers in our Southern and Eastern counties we saw cloudy skies for rest of the morning. The thunderstorms began to pick up again in the early afternoon. We once again saw severe weather as a Tornado hit just south of Ballinger around Rowena at approximately 10 pm. A big problem over the past 36 hours is flooding; a Flash Flood Watch was present for most of the area until 8 am and a Flash Flood Warning until 6 am for Brown and Coleman counties.

This morning will be a stormy commute around some areas of the Big Country as scattered thunderstorms are still present. An upper level low is just to our North moving off to the East into Oklahoma, this is helping to develop the thunderstorms around the area. Temperatures are very mild in the mid 60’s. For the rest of the day we will continue to see the chance for scattered thunderstorms with the best activity being in the Eastern counties as this system does push off. This means we could begin to see some clearing by the afternoon off towards our western counties. Temperatures will hit the upper 70’s where we will see the cloudy skies and storms with areas seeing some clearing and sun getting into the lowers 80’s.

Tonight we will keep the chance for an isolated thunderstorm in our eastern counties. Otherwise we will see partly to mostly cloudy skies and temperatures in the lower 60’s.

Tomorrow our next upper level low approaches the area. Depending on the exact track will depend how much rainfall and severe weather we will see with this system. Right now the track varies from moving over our area to pushing through the panhandle. Because of this upper level low we will keep in a thirty percent chance for scattered thunderstorms for tomorrow into Thursday. Temperatures will be in the mid 80’s.

Friday should be dry with partly cloudy skies and upper 80’s for temperatures.

For the weekend another system might be making a play for some more activity. We will keep in a 20 percent chance for thunderstorms Saturday into early next week. Temperatures will be in the mid 80’s.

Have a great day!