Friday Morning Forecast

Good Morning from Morning Meteorologist Kristen Connolly…

If you noticed one thing yesterday it would be that we have had almost two different days across the Big Country. Our Northern counties stayed dry with plenty of sunshine while the southern counties saw the clouds build in early and showers continue through the afternoon.

The rain we have seen the past few days has been thanks to a cut off upper level low. This low has been spinning down to the south causing an abundant amount of rainfall for the hill country and gulf coast. Corpus Christi received near an inch yesterday which caused flooding on major roadways. In the month of July that city has received nine times the amount of rain it usually receives (two inches). Right now the low is just south of San Angelo.

Through the day we will see the rain chances at forty percent with the best activity being in our southern and eastern counties closest to the low. Since this system is slow moving we could see storms linger over the same area which could cause the possibility of flooding. Right now we have no watches because of the fact we have been dry for a while and the ground can take some rainfall. By the overnight the activity should die down but we can expect another round by Saturday afternoon. For today and tomorrow highs with the cloud cover will stay in the mid 80’s with overnight lows around 70 degrees.

Rain chances should begin to decrease as the system pushes west keeping them at thirty percent Sunday and decreasing them to twenty on Monday. With less rain chances and cloud cover temperatures will gradually warm with highs in the upper 80’s.

Next week we should return to northly flow aloft which keeps the rain chances at twenty percent with highs in the low 90’s.

Have a great weekend!