Weak Front Tonight, But It Won't Last...

What a different feel between both sides of Lake P. as a weak cold front tires to stagger down to the coast.  The difference is not so much in the temperatures, but in the dew points (drier air).  With sunshine & drier air, it's warmer to our north, but that will change after sunset.

Dew points at San Antonio & Houston are in the 30s along with most of LA/MS north of the Lake.

I rarely show the water vapor view, unless the upper features don't show up on the visible view.  The disturbance over Michigan (that was the trigger for the tornado outbreak) is clearly obvious.  But the 2 western features are much less defined.  The Michigan upper system is pulling away and that is why the surface front over us is running out of support to drive southward.  It's the weak upper disturbance over the SW that will bring clouds back along with some showers late Sunday into Monday.

The increase in clouds on Sunday should keep the temps. below 80.   But that will be it as most of next week will flirt with record warmth.

There will be another severe weather outbreak coming next Tuesday, but the upper energy will stay far to our north so it won't affect us.

Yesterday's tornado outbreak was tragic, but no where near historical.  If you can zoom in on the top view, you'll find a bird sitting above a feeder like nothing was going on.  Yet in the background, perhaps a mile away, was a large wedge tornado.  We are approaching the 49th anniversary of the great April 3, 1974 outbreak.  I'll talk more about that tomorrow as I was working at WDTN-TV2 in Dayton, Ohio only 25 miles from the F5 Xenia tornado.  Stay tuned!