Good Morning from KRBC Meteoroloigst Chris Whited...* Storms never materialized yesterday because a complex of thunderstorms that stayed in Deep South Texas and along the coast pretty much blocked the moisture influx into our area so that's the reason the storms never showed up and the clouds broke up yesterday afternoon. Another area of storms is down that way this mornig. A batch of high to mid-level clouds are drifting in from the west so we should remain partly to mostly cloudh today and mostly cloudy tonight. It will be a breezy today as the wind picks up out of the southeast. Highs in the middle 70s and lows tonight in the middle 50s.
* Warm and humid weather pattern remains in place for the rest of the week with rain chances still in the forecast. An area of high pressure still sits to the east and is pretty much stationary. Clockwise flow around the high pressure will pump moisture from the Gulf of Mexico into Texas. Daytime heading and a few disturbances in the southeast flow will trigger thunderstorms chances each day this week. The best storms chances will be during the day with isolated storm chances at night. The highest rain chances will be into the middle of the week. High temperatures this week will be in the lower to middle 70s with overnight lows in the middle to upper 50s. The airmass is not going to be very comfortable as we will stay humid this week. A few peeks of sunshine now and then but overall we will stay mostly cloudy this week.
* Severe Weather: An organized severe weather threat is low. The above mentioned high will block any upper level systems from working in from the west. The jetstream pattern will take these systems to our north. This is still April so any thunderstorms that do develop could be strong or could briefly reach severe limits.
* KRBC Weathering The Storm: We would like to invite you to watch our spring severe weather special this Thursday night at 6:30 P.M. on KRBC. We have a lot of interesting topics the entire weather team will cover from how El Nino is going to affect the severe weather season, the process of how the NWS issues a weather warning, and we revisit Breckenridge to see how the city is recovering from a tornado back in the spring two years ago.
* Drought Information: For the latest drought information for the state of Texas please visit the U.S Drought Monitor website by clicking here. The data is updated by the government every Thursday morning around 7:30 AM local time.
* Join us for the latest news and weather updates in the mornings for Abilene & the Big Country on KRBC's Abilene Today at 6:00 A.M. and on Abilene Midday at 11:30 A.M. Our news and weather coverage continues in the afternoon at 5:00 and tonight 6:00 and 10:00 P.M. on KRBC.
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Enjoy your Tuesday...
