VICTORIA, Texas-: Today: Sunny skies with light winds while temperatures stay above average. High: 80 degrees. Winds: N 5-10 mph. A 10% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Friday Night: Clear skies with light winds while temperatures stay below average. Low: 48 degrees. Winds: NE 5-10 mph. A 10% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Saturday: Sunny skies with light winds while temperatures stay below average. High: 71degrees. Winds: NE 10 mph. A 10% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Saturday Night: Clear skies with light winds while temperatures stay around average. Low: 47 degrees. Winds: SE 5 mph. A 10% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Extended Forecast: Sunday through Friday:
Sunday: Sunny skies with light winds while temperatures stay above average. High: 79/53 degrees. Winds: SW 10 mph. A 10% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Monday: Mostly sunny skies with light winds while temperatures stay above average. High: 79/58 degrees. Winds: S 10 mph. A 10% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny skies with moderate winds while temperatures stay above average. High: 81/64 degrees. Winds: S 15 mph. A 10% chance of early scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Wednesday: Partly sunny skies with moderate winds while temperatures stay above average. High: 83/61 degrees. Winds: S 15 mph. A 20% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Thursday: Partly sunny skies with light winds while temperatures stay around average. High: 78/55 degrees. Winds: NE 10 mph. A 20% chance of early scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Friday: Partly cloudy skies with light winds while temperatures stay around average. High: 74/61 degrees. Winds: E 10 mph. A 20% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Synopsis: As the front continues to push south through the state, dry cooler air is filling in behind the front. The passage of the front has cleared skies with cumulus clouds moving north to south through the area. Skies will continue to clear from north to south as high pressure pushes in from the north with dry air.
Thursday night will be mostly clear and quiet with those conditions lasting through the weekend. Low temperatures will drop into the 50’s (60’s near the coast) but some of the northern portions of the viewing area could see the 40’s overnight on Thursday. Friday warms up nicely with temperatures in the upper 70’s to the mid 80’s along with mostly sunny skies. High pressure will continue to move into Texas and progress southeastward during the day on Friday while another cold front pushes through the Crossroads Friday night into Saturday. As the front leaves the area Friday evening, the pressure change will spike winds up Friday night with moderate to strong winds over the Coastal Waters. Friday night’s low temperatures will be slightly cooler than Thursdays overnight lows.
In the long term for the extended period, days 3 to 7, Saturday through Thursday, as a trough moves across the Midwest on Saturday (and the Mississippi Valley), this movement will push more high-pressure systems into Texas and maintaining dry conditions (cool nights).
Another system will move across the Midwest Saturday night/Sunday and then will continue to the east coast Sunday night before moving out into the Atlantic Ocean Sunday night. Some showers could reach North Texas before the front stalls or dissipates.
On Tuesday airflow out of the Gulf (south) will return (due to west to east movement) to the area with minimal amounts of moisture.
By Tuesday/Wednesday another weather disturbance will move across the U.S./Canada border along with an associated cold front while a cold front moves toward the viewing area on Thursday. Lifting of the air-masses out ahead of the front could produce some lift that could deliver some rain showers. Nothing treacherous at all for the area with minimal rain if any.
Tropics: A large and powerful non-tropical area of low pressure located several hundred miles southeast of Cape Race Newfoundland is producing a broad area of showers, Gale to near Hurricane Force winds, and dangerous seas across portions of the north central Atlantic. Although the chance for sub-tropical development continues to decrease as it moves over much cooler waters, this system is forecast to intensify into a hurricane-force extratropical low by Thursday night. As of Friday morning this system has fizzled out as the colder water stifled activity.
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