Near record high temperatures, sunny skies Monday
QUICK WEATHER FORECAST:
- Today: Few clouds, high 90
- Tonight: Partly cloudy, low 64
- Tuesday: Partly sunny, high 89 (69)
- Wednesday: Chance of t-storms, high 83 (64)
- Thursday: Scattered rain, high 76 (58)
- Friday: Chance of t-storms, high 79 (59)
FORECAST DISCUSSION:
The first half of the upcoming workweek will stay sunny and dry as well. Plenty of sunshine with very few clouds are expected on Monday. Highs will be near 90 degrees. The record high for this date is 91 set back in 1962.
Overnight will be very warm with temperatures running about 10 degrees above normal for this time of year. Lows will fall to the mid 60s. Skies will become partly cloudy. Winds will remain light coming from the south.
Sunshine will stay for Tuesday. Highs will be back int he upper 80s. By Wednesday a system will move through bringing showers and thunderstorms. Late Wednesday evening a few rounds of strong storms will kick off with some potentially becoming severe. Those storms will last through early Thursday morning.
As the storms move through and the cold front passes, cooler temperatures on the back end will not last for long. A rebound back to the 80s will return by the week’s end. Throughout Memorial Day weekend there will be several rounds of spotty showers and thunderstorms.