Finally A Break Coming...Much Drier & Hotter Week Ahead...

In sports, it's often said, "better to be lucky than good".  It works in weather too as today most of us have been lucky in avoiding the heavy, flooding rains.  However, there has been some heavy stuff just to our south and east.

Those storms have been triggered by a slow moving "cut off" upper low that finally is being to lift out and move to the north.

In fact most of Texas is rain free, a sign of what's coming for us.   The models are showing the upper low lifting away with an upper ridge building in by the end of the week.

The top graphic is from this morning with the upper low centered in Oklahoma.  The middle is valid for Wednesday with what's left of the low opening into a trough over Missouri.  The bottom graphic is valid for midday on Saturday showing a building upper ridge over Texas that will mean a heat wave for later this week here.

So when you take away the clouds and rain at this time of the year, you bring on summertime heat.

The heat is on across the northern states while it's less hot under the clouds and showers to the south.  That will flip flop during the week as the northern states cool off & the South heats up

Once the blob over the South lifts northward, we shouldn't have much to talk about as the Gulf & Caribbean are quiet.  Finally,

Yesterday I attended the ordination of 6 new Catholic Priests in St. Louis Cathedral.  I hadn't been inside for over a decade and had forgotten how really beautiful all the murals are.  Next time you're in the Quarter and have time to spare, take a tour.  It's well worth it.   Stay tuned!