We got a welcome surprise yesterday – rain – but don’t get too excited, because the heat (like the South) shall rise again! Hold on to your sun block, we are in for a steamy weekend. The famed (or is it infamous?) Sonoran heat ridge will build into Texas and the Great Plains this weekend, and likely be the main influence in apparent weather across the Lone Star State through most of next week. But by Wednesday, the computer models are showing something distinctly different! This time around, the ridge builds into the Midwest and leaves Texas and the Gulf Coast under easterly flow above a weakness! Tropical disturbances crop up, and some may get close enough to Houston to set off showers and thunderstorms. As an extra added bonus a larger, stronger tropical low may develop in the Gulf of Mexico. With the chance to deliver heavy rainfall when a trough and cold front drop down into the south central U.S. on or just after Labor Day....Just hang in there!
Today: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 99. Heat index values as high as 107. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph. Saturday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 105. Heat index values as high as 112. North wind around 5 mph.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 96. East wind around 5 mph.
Hurricane Irene is expected to make landfall near Cape Hatteras sometime during the day on Saturday. Forecasters said Irene is expected to go into the Carolinas as a borderline Category 3, but will drop to a Category 2 by the time it hits D.C.
As of: 8:00 AM EDT Fri Aug 26
Location: 30.0°N 77.3°W
Max sustained: 110 mph
Moving: N at 14 mph
Min pressure: 945 mb
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