Happy Monday to you on FIRST Alert meteorologist Trevor Gibbs.
A very hot and humid day underway with more coverage
of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon.
But before the rain develops,
we're going to see temperatures rise into the lower and
middle 90s and it's very humid.
So our feels like temperatures will be climbing above 105°.
In fact, even approaching 110 to 111 for a couple
of hours this afternoon.
So that's why there's a heat advisory in effect area
wide today.
It'll likely be canceled early because we will see good
coverage of showers and thunderstorms through the afternoon and evening,
especially along and West of I-95.
But still, areas east of I-95 are going to get
in on some rain today,
unlike the last couple of days,
and it's really going to pick up by Tuesday and
Wednesday with fairly widespread coverage of rain and staying around
Thursday and Friday as well.
So overall, we have a wetter week in store and
you'll see that here in our Futurecast by 12:00 today,
starting to see some development along the coast,
everywhere in the 90s, though as early as 12.
And then as we take it into the afternoon,
you can see pretty scattered coverage of showers and thunderstorms,
and they'll be capable of producing some very heavy rainfall
today.
Winding down shortly after sunset.
For your Tuesday, it's a similar story,
but the coverage is a little bit higher as more
of us will see areas of heavy rain Tuesday afternoon,
which will lead to some areas of localized flooding because
some of these storms will be slow movers.
But overall, it is beneficial rain as much of our
area is in that moderate drought all the way through
Tuesday at 10:00 PM.
Still some activity lingering inland.
So All in all, an average of two to four
inches of rain is a good bet through the course
of the next seven days.
But some areas could see locally higher amounts where we
do see those thunderstorms park over the same areas.
And again, that will bring in the risk for some
localized flooding.
But overall, it's needed rainfall in the tropics.
We've got Hurricane Barrow became a hurricane once again last
night after staying as a tropical storm for a couple
of days.
But it's almost to its end as it's a making
a landfall in Texas this morning.
And that will continue to weaken thereafter,
but push a lot of tropical moisture into the state
of Texas.
Some wind gusts this morning as high as 74 mph.
I've seen a few observations above 80 mph.
And there's the track taking it to the north and
then eventually curving northeastward by Tuesday as a remnant low
pressure,
but again, bringing plenty of rain to areas West.
Of us and it stays far away from us.
So we're not going to have any impacts from barrel,
but we will see plenty of showers and thunderstorms over
the next week here in your 7 day forecast with
your weekend always in view 90s each day,
although it's a little cooler later in the week thanks
to more clouds and rain that'll be around as we
stay scattered with the rains through next weekend and low
temperatures that will stay in the 70s.