Thursday Morning Update

Good Morning from Morning Meteorologist Kristen Connolly…

The start of August seemed to be a precursor of days to come. The sun was out in fun force through the afternoon helping to get our temperatures in the lower 90’s. But that sun only fueled the storms that began to pop by late afternoon. We say lots of showers and thunderstorms across the area through the evening with some of them producing heavy rainfall and causing flash flooding.

This morning we are seeing some scattered showers around the Big Country, with the heaviest activity staying in our eastern and southern counties. You may need that umbrella to get out to work, if not keep it handy.

Today, the clouds should hold on which will keep the temperatures only reaching the upper 80’s. However, you may have noticed it feels extremely muggy out, which makes the temperature feel from 5-10 degrees warmer. With plenty of moisture till around and a trough to the east, an upper level low to the west as well outflow boundaries from previous storms we have lots of lifting forces to help produce the rainfall.

By tomorrow the boundaries should weaken which will help to eliminate our chances for storms. We will drop the chances down to twenty percent and with that bump the temperatures back to upper 80’s to low 90’s.

By the weekend high pressure appears to take over which will mean we are saying hello to hot and humid temperatures through early next week.

Have a great day!