Over the weekend we had some nice Fall weather. High temps had finally dipped into the 60s, and it felt great! During that time we had a northeast breeze that kept the temps and humidity down. Today we’ll start to transition a bit as we warm up slightly. High pressure is to our northeast. There is a warm front to our northwest with a cold front over the Midwest.
There were some severe storms ahead of that front over the weekend. It created multiple tornadoes across parts of Oklahoma.
While I think we would put up with some isolated severe weather to get some rain around here. Unfortunately, there is no rain in the short-term forecast. This is going to allow us to break the record for days without rainfall.
Most of the country is in some type of drought right now. We have a moderate drought in our region.
So with all of that said… Today is going to be a nice day! We’ll have more of a light east wind at 5-10mph. We’ll be partly cloudy through the day with mostly sunny skies for a time. It will be a nice day with high temps rising to the upper 60s.
There will be a few 70s inland/south. Tomorrow it appears that we will start off with some fog in the region. Then we’ll have partly cloudy skies. The thing about tomorrow is that the wind will turn out of the south. This will heat up the temps to the upper 70s.
A few spots may even hit 80 degrees. No rain is expected from morning to evening. So it should be good weather for voters.
We’ll heat up even more on Wednesday. High temps will rise to near 80 degrees.
We’ll be partly cloudy with a south/southwest wind. Between today and Wednesday the humidity will increase.
It won’t be what I’d call “Muggy”, but it will be more humid. It will be another couple of days with a late-Summer or early-Fall feel. A cool front will move into the area on Thursday. Before it looked like we’d have a chance for a few scattered rain showers as the front arrived. However, the models have since backed off of the rain a bit. So now I only have a slight chance for a shower. After that temps should cool down going into Friday and Saturday. High temps will be back to the upper 60s to low 70s. I’ll have more on that in tomorrow’s weather blog.
The tropics are busy again. This morning “tropical” storm Patty was moving east towards Portugal.
It barely looked like a system on satellite though, and it is forecast to become post-tropical soon.
It really needs to fall apart, as they are still recovering from extreme rainfall over parts of Spain. I think it will bring some rain to Portugal, but it may not bring much rain to Spain.
Meanwhile, Potential Tropical Cyclone 18 is likely to become tropical storm Rafael later today.
There is some very warm water in the Caribbean, and wind shear is light. That should let the system strengthen into a hurricane as it gets close to Cuba.
After Cuba it will likely move to the northwest. As it does it will encounter some drier air and a little more wind shear. That should weaken the system as it gets closer to the Gulf Coast. The model tracks are pretty uncertain after Cuba.
I’d say that the coast of Louisiana is favored, but we’ll see. Stay tuned for updates!
Meteorologist: Jeremy Wheeler