First 90+ Degree Day, Storms Coming From North, Plus Alex In Gulf Later This Month...

Lots to talk about today as we have topped the 90 degree mark for the first time this Spring/Summer season.  It maybe a couple of days early, but not by much.  The reason we were so hot is the lack of clouds & showers that will arrive later this evening towards dark.

Models are increasing our rain chances for Friday, but again 80% chance doesn't mean it will rain 80% of the time.  It refers to area coverage.

I grabbed the graphics from David's 5 PM program and you can see why Friday has higher rain chances.  Note, next week an upper high builds in drying us out and heating us up.

back to the Tropics, the current upper low off the East coast continues to move slowly to the west. There are several low level circulations, but it is becoming unlikley that any name will be used with this system.  However, the long range GFS indicates a storm in the southern Gulf in the 10-14 day time frame that drifts towards the Texas coast.  I'll be watching over the next several days to see if models have any consistency in developing something, or is it the usual computer overhype?

Summer has come to the eastern states with 90= as far north a Green Bay & Chicago.

With the upper high breaking down, we should see better chances for rain tomorrow into Sunday.  Next week gets hot & dry.  Stay tuned!