Good Morning from Meteorologist Chris Whited...
* Abilene officially reached 100° on Thursday, which marks the first 100° day for the Key City of 2009. Get ready to add another one today as afternoon highs will climb well above the century mark. The record for today in Abilene is 100° from back in 2000 and it is most likely we will break that here in the city. We could also set another record this morning, called a record-low maximum. That means it is the warmest overnight low on record for the day. Many spots will only drop into the lower 70s this morning.
* Heat ridge is still centered over the Rio Grande Valley. Today will be the warmest day with widespread low 100s across the area. I am averaging late afternoon highs between 102 - 107° for the area so please be careful outside and remember your hot weather safety tips! Humidity will be bad this morning but the dryline is expected to cross through most of the Big Country this afternoon which will kill the humidity for most of us. With the dryline pushing through and dry air behind it, that's why we expect the numbers to get really hot later today.
* Weekend: Cold front will arrive late tonight into early Saturday and cools us back down into the 70s over the weekend. There could be an isolated storm tonight. Models are showing a slight chance for an isolated storm or two over the weekend and into Monday. I've still maintained a 20% chance for the three day period in my forecast package.
* Next Week: Looks like a gradual warming trend beings next week with highs climbing backi well into the 80s to near 90 by midweek. For now, other than the rain chance on Monday, things look dry.
* May We Help Cool You Off? We want to give you a chance to win 4 tickets to Schlitterbahn Water Park Resort in New Braunfels, Texas! Take your family, take the kids, take your friends, take all your boyfriends, take all your girlfriends. Enter as many times as you want to, but you have to vote before 2pm on Friday. All you have to do is correctly guess the time it will hit 100 degrees on the afternoon of Friday, May 8th, 2009 at the Abilene Regional Airport weather reporting station for the National Weather Service. The time must include hours and minutes, for example 4:05 can be entered in the time box, we're not counting seconds, just the hour and the minute. The National Weather Service will report the data for the day on Saturday, we will announce the winner here on Monday, May 11th. Enter as many times as you want to at BigCountryHomepage.Com but hurry, the entry deadline is 2pm on Friday, May 8th. If more than one person guesses the correct time, all of the correct guessers will be put into a random drawing for the prize.
* Join us on television this morning for the lastst on your forecast as well as news from around Abilene and the Big Country on KRBC's Abilene Today at 6:00 AM and on Abilene Midday at 11:30 AM.
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Have a Great Weekend!
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