Good morning! There are some gradual, subtle weather changes in our future. There will still be random thunderstorms everyday. But, the trend will be for fewer storms on the radar. So, your probability of running into a heavy tropical downpour will be lower. The other side of the coin is this. Expect some hotter afternoon temperatures, especially by the end of the week and over the upcoming weekend. Unfortunately, that will most likely lead to heat indices into the 105+ danger range. The summer solstice is 9:42 PM Friday night, which means Saturday is the first full day of summer. Here’s my brief forecast discussion.
TODAY: Sun/cloud mix. Scattered showers and storms most likely in the afternoon and evening hours. Hot and humid. High near 92. Low tonight 72.
FUTURE RADAR: The trend will be for fewer storms on radar. You could still get a very heavy tropical downpour, but many towns will stay dry.
NEXT FEW DAYS: Gradually, the number of afternoon and evening storms will start to thin out a bit. Not as many storms on the radar. But, get ready. We are going to start to heat up by late week and into the weekend as upper level high pressure builds. Storms will not be as numerous. But, Triple Digit Heat indices the danger range will become common.
10 Day temperature trend. Stand by. Big summer heat is not too many days away.
A building massive upper high will be responsible for fewer PM storms and Dangerous Heat Indices by the weekend.
BEACH FORECAST: Better than lasty weekend by a mile. Scattered spotty random mostly PM storms. High rip current risk. Gulf water at a season high 86.
TROPICAL UPDATE: NHC says the Atlantic Basin is quiet for the next 7 days, and very likely for much of the rest of June.
SUMMER SOLSTICE FRIDAY: We are about 2days away from the official first day of summer, Friday June 20th at 9:42 pm CDT. Longest day of the year. 14 hours 16 minutes and 36 seconds.
Thanks for reading the blog. Today everything is normal including LIVE on the Radio of NewsTalk 93.1 WACV. There will be another video forecast discussion and Blog Update in the 4 o’clock hours tomorrow morning. You can always find my forecast updates hourly on the 8 station Bluewater family of stations every day of the year.
–Rich