Extreme Heat Is Gone...For Now...Any Rain?

The heat we had here across the Brazos Valley on Tuesday was a dooooozy. Easterwood Airport in College Station officially hit 106° which broke the old record from 2009 of 105°. Additionally, the humidity has been sky high, making the heat index or "feels like" temperature over 110° at times.

Now we are going to switch from an extreme heat pattern to one that is quite warm, but much more humid.

High pressure will be centered over the northeast quadrent of the Gulf over the coming days. Note the circulation around high pressure, which is clockwise. Therefore, the wind will generally come from the southeast, or off the warm/moist Gulf waters. Due to the extra moisture in the air, we will see additional cloud cover, and the temperatures will fall back into the mid 90s. Thea reason why temperatures will not soar over 100° is due to extra water vapor (humidity) in the air.

When the atmosphere has additional water in the air, the sun will not be able to heat up the Earth's surface as efficiently, because it takes additional energy to heat up due to the moisture. On the flip side, if the atmosphere was dry, it would take less energy to heat up the air and temperatures would rise quickly.

The overall point is that the afternoon highs will not be extreme, but with the abundance of humidity, it will be warm and muggy at night.

By the weekend, a small area of upper level energy will swing by the western Gulf and spawn widspread showers and storms that will move inland due to the overall clockwise flow around high pressure.

Most of the rainfall will hug the coasline, but some will come inland.

We could use a good soaking around here and I will update you if we have a better chance of that happening this weekend. So far, looks like a mainly dry weekend with the best shot of seeing any showers here on Sunday.

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