Happy Saturday. I'm Arkansas Storm Team Meteorologist Julianna Cullen with
an evening check.
Your forecast brought to you by the crane team.
We've been sunny and dry for your Saturday.
Easter Looks to be pretty similar except we are going
to have a little bit more cloud cover,
but it's going to be just as warm as today.
Many of us made it into the upper 70s and
80s for your Saturday.
Expect tomorrow to be another day in the upper 70s
to just about 80 for your high.
A little bit breezy, but overall comfortable for any outdoor
plans.
If you're going to a sunrise service on Easter morning
or maybe just outside for some Easter egg hunts with
the kids,
it should be really comfortable but warm weather for this
time of year.
And then after we get through Easter,
our attention is going to turn to Monday which will
bring us our next chance for showers and storms.
But this is late Monday.
We're talking 910 o'clock in the evening and then into
the overnight hours.
Now that greatest risk for severe weather looks to be
up towards our northwest and portions of Oklahoma,
Kansas and Missouri and the northwest corner of the state
where you see that medium risk for severe weather.
But we do have a low risk for severe weather
across the western half of the state and some of
us in that very low risk across central and Eastern
Arkansas. So something we're still going to have to monitor
though as we move towards Monday night and into Tuesday.
So let's see how that plays out on forecast.
Track the rest of today.
Clouds building in overnight tonight.
Here's your Easter Sunday forecast.
Notice mostly cloudy, maybe a couple peaks of sunshine here
and there.
But for the most part,
it's going to be kind of an overcast day.
But temperatures will still make a run for just about
80°,
and it's still going to be a little bit breezy,
with southwest winds anywhere from 10 to 15 miles an
hour.
And notice how most of your Monday actually ends up
being dry as well.
That shower and thunderstorm chance really doesn't get to us
until maybe 10:00.
At night. Before showers and storms enter the state,
we'll stop forecast track at 9:00 PM,
notice some of those showers and storms developing in Oklahoma
and Missouri and then eventually entering our state late Monday
and continuing as we move towards overnight and then into
your Tuesday morning.
So here's 2:00 in the morning showers and storms kind
of rolling in and then continuing through about five,
6:00 in the morning. So you'll notice how across forecast
track those storms look a little bit more larger when
they were in Oklahoma and they kind of fell apart
as they got into our state.
That's why that highest risk for severe weather in the
northwest corner of Arkansas and just outside of the state
in Oklahoma and Missouri.
And those storms are kind of expected to weaken as
they get into our area.
But we'll still be tracking that risk for severe weather,
damaging wind gusts, large hail and that low end risk
for a tornado will be possible late Monday into early
Tuesday,
again, mainly in the northwest corner of the state.
I think it's going to be the best possibility for
that severe weather tonight.
We'll just build in those clouds,
63 for your overnight low tomorrow for your Easter,
80, mostly cloudy, a little bit on the breezy side
with that southwest wind,
anywhere from 10 to 15 miles an hour.
And then we'll have that chance for showers and storms
late Monday into early Tuesday morning.
After that, a little bit cooler weather Wednesday,
Thursday. We're in the 60s and we're warming back up
into the 70s For your upcoming weekend.
Have a great rest of your Saturday and a wonderful
Sunday and Easter.