Good Monday to one and all. Our new week is off and running on a very warm note across our part of the world. Temps out there today are more typical of summer than the middle of April. All this warm air is likely to lead us into a pattern much more conducive for showers and thunderstorms. That’s a good thing because we are getting a little dry around here.
Temps today hit the low and middle 80s in most areas. I should be able to get my 85 degree high temperature before the day is over. Cha-Ching! 🙂
Tuesday stays warm with upper 70s and low 80s with partly sunny skies.
The threat for some showers and thunderstorms moves in by late Wednesday. The simulated radar from the NAM…
Showers and thunderstorms become more widespread Thursday and Friday…
That’s an upper low pivoting across the region, bringing cooler temps and the raindrops.
Much warmer air moves in for the weekend with temps making a run toward the 80s by Sunday. That carries us into early next week, but the pattern looks much more humid and threatening. This setup next week into early May is one that can produce multiple waves of showers and storms rumbling from the plains into the Ohio Valley…
Speaking of May, the latest CFS forecast for the month shows cooler than normal temps…
That same model run also suggests a stormy pattern…
Make it a great Monday and take care.
My mom lives outside Houston and I woke up to messages from her about the city sewer backing up into her house. As of 6 a.m., the estimate was that 10 to 16 inches of rain had fallen.
I just looked at the radar and it’s all yellow.
Last year was the 1,000 year flood in Central Texas and this one is already being called a 500 year flood, with more rain falling.
I had posted a comment about this but the Moderation Monster currently has it under wraps.
I have been keeping up with that this morning too as I have relatives that live in the south part of Houston, which looks like it is feeling the brunt of this system as I write this. I read a report a little bit ago that at least 70 subdivisions around Houston are flooded already.
Berea reporting in…our 11 inches in 30 minutes microburst was the worst thing I’ve ever experienced including two tornadoes.
Would not wish that experience on anyone.
Let’s hope the people down there had at least some sort of warning, we had zilch from all sources around here.
Houston was, not sure if they still are under a Flash Flood Emergency which is extremely rare. I was reading the actual very first Flash Flood Emergency ever issued in the US actually occurred in Louisville Ky in August of 2009.
Texas Flood…..good song, but bad event. 🙁
If you want to know which parts of Houston are being hit the hardest, here’s the live system for Harris County, TX (cool site!)
http://www.harriscountyfws.org
One of the Houston mets down there has been on air for like the last 12 hours and I think he’s starting to go a little mental from the stress and the energy drinks.
81° in Richmond with 18% RH? Has anyone ever seen it get that low before?
RH has been flirting with single digits in southeast KY the last few days.. Dusty dry down here. We all know how fast things can change. A few weeks from now we may be begging for the storms to stop.
86 in Louisville humidity at 18% yeah it’s dry and very warm bordering on hot.