Marcus Bailey

🌧 SATURDAY RAIN AND STORMS 🌧

A slow moving boundary will work through south through the day. Scattered rain and storms are expected for northern counties this morning. That line will move southeast by late morning.

Another round will develop with the heating of the day this afternoon and evening. A few gusty storms with large hail will be possible. Heavy downpours are likely in both rounds of storms today.

GOOD MORNING! Today will begin a long stretch of very warm, muggy, and at times, wet weather.

We will be dodging multipe rounds of showers and storms today. A few gusty storms with some hail are possible, along with heavy downpours.

Heavy rain is also possible Sunday night into Monday and Tuesday.

The hottest air of the season is set to arrive late next week. 🔥

🌧☔ RAIN CHANCES RAMP UP 🌧☔

Daily rain chances return starting Saturday. A much more muggy air mass will help fuel heavy downpours with any storm that develops through late next week.

While a few stronger storms will be possible on Saturday, the main threats for the next several days will be flooding. Areas that get under a few of these downpours could really fill up the rain bucket very quickly. Below is a projection of the potential rainfall through next Thursday against the average for that same time period. Some areas could double the precip. amounts.

HOTTEST OF THE YEAR - High temperature mid-to-late next week will push closer to 90°. Humidity will be extremely high as well, making for a sweltering Thursday afternoon. Take a look at the heat index (feels like) temperatures for Thursday. 🔥☀

FRIDAY STORMS - A cold front slowly pushing through the Midwest will spark a few isolated storms this afternoon and evening - mainly in the northern 1/3 of the state. A few storms could contain some gusty winds and larger hail.

FRIDAY - It's feels a little more thick this morning - but we're still in for a pretty nice early June day. High hit the mid 80s with wind gusts 20-30mph. High humidity is just to our west. Rain chances ramp up starting this weekend.

WINDY FRIDAY - We should be in for another great day - warmer with highs in the mid 80s with managable humidity.

Winds will pick up quite a bit ahead of our weekend system - with gusts out of the south between 20-30 mph.

MUGGY AIR RETURNS - We've been pretty lucky with the dry air over us since late last week. We start tapping into Gulf moisture starting this weekend and for much of next week. Dew point numbers (measurement of moisture in the air) will push will into the 60s and close to 70s.

This will push our heat index values into the mid 90s next week, and it will help in pushing out daily storm chances starting Saturday.

HOT NEXT WEEK - Our first taste of real summer heat moves in next week. Not only will highs be running nearly 10° average, but with muggy air our feels like temps will be in the middle 90s by the middle and end of next week. 🔥