Wednesday Morning Forecast

Good Morning from Morning Meteorologist Kristen Connolly…

August has officially arrived and although we may have a few rainy days to start it off, summer may finally come out in the next seven days.

To end July we picked up near half an inch at the Abilene Regional Airport making us end our first seven months almost a quarter of an inch above what we need for an entire year.

Today we are starting off in the lower 70’s with extremely muggy conditions outside. All that moisture will help us with our rain chances. Factor one you need for showers and thunderstorms, factor two is instability and we get that from the heating of the day. (If you have noticed over the past few days most the activity occurs from late morning to late evening.) The last is a lifting mechanism- we have an upper level low present in the Big Bend area that is can still toss disturbance our way. Along with the upper level low we still have a stationary front draped across the Lone Star state, although it may wash out soon we still could see some activity spark off it. Last but not least we can still see “mini cold fronts” called outflow boundaries which form from previous storms. If you are not seeing the rain you will feel the humidity. By the afternoon temperatures should reach the upper 80’s to low 90’s but heat indexes could be even 10 degrees warmer.

We will keep the rain chances in for the next couple days but by the weekend high pressure should build in which creates sinking air and should inhibit our rain chances through the long term. With lots more sunshine highs should get into the mid 90’s.

Have a great day!