VICTORIA, Texas-: Today: Partly sunny skies with light winds while temperatures stay around average. High: 91 degrees. Winds: SE 10 mph. A 20% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy skies with light winds while temperatures stay above average. Low: 73 degrees. Winds: SE 5-10 mph. A 20% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms before 8 pm.
Tuesday: Partly cloudy skies with light winds while temperatures stay around average. High: 91 degrees. Winds: SE 5-15 mph. A 60% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms after 8 am. Heat Index Temperatures could be around 105 degrees.
Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy skies with light winds while temperatures stay above average. Low: 73 degrees. Winds: SE 10 mph. A 60% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Extended Forecast: Wednesday through Sunday:
Wednesday: Partly cloudy skies with light winds while temperatures stay around average. High: 89/72 degrees. Winds: SE 5-10 mph. A 60% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. Heat Index Temperatures could be around 105 degrees.
Thursday: Partly cloudy skies with light winds while temperatures stay around average. High: 87/71 degrees. Winds: SE 5-10 mph. A 60% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms after 8 am.
Friday: Partly cloudy skies with light winds while temperatures stay around average. High: 88/70 degrees. Winds: E 10 mph. A 60% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms after 8 am.
Saturday: Partly cloudy skies with light winds while temperatures stay around average. High: 87/67 degrees. Winds: NE 10 mph. A 40% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Sunday: Partly cloudy skies with light winds while temperatures stay around average. High: 88/65 degrees. Winds: NE 10 mph. A 40% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Monday: Partly cloudy skies with light winds while temperatures stay around average. High: 89/63 degrees. Winds: NE 10 mph. A 20% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Synopsis: A trough (discernible on Visible Satellite Radar) that as of last night was a few hundred miles east and southeast of Brownsville is moving northwest (with high moisture content around 2″) and should move into the coastal waters of the viewing area by 7 am, and into the middle of the upper Texas coast shortly after 1 pm on Monday. Most of this moisture (with this feature) will move northward into the mid and upper Texas coast on Monday. South Texas should remain on the drier side as the region will still be under the influence of a high-pressure ridge. This ridge should move off to the east on Monday night. A low-pressure system will slowly move across New Mexico Monday and Monday night. A trough will move out of northern Mexico and into the Rio Grande Plains and Hill Country Monday night. Some (convective) storm energy moving out of northern Mexico will get stifled by weather variables that will prevent lift, thus keeping rain chances near 10 percent for the Western Brush Country on Monday night. For the long-term period there will be a low-pressure system centered near the New Mexico/Colorado state line, a weakening high-pressure system over the Great Plains and a strong low-pressure system that will be well to the north in eastern Canada creating some troughing over the eastern half of the country. These weather features will continue to move from west to east for the rest of the week. The low-pressure system in the Rocky Mountains will move towards the northeast and will send several bursts of storm energy across the Southern Pains that should move towards South Texas. Some upward lift should keep rain chances at 40 percent or greater where if the lift is on the weaker side, then rain chances could stay more on the 20 percent side. Upper- level fast moving winds in the Jet Stream will enhance lift and rain chances, but high pressure moving up from the south will start to dwindle these chances late Friday and through the weekend. More storms (low-pressure) moving out of the Desert Southwest, pushing storm energy into the already high moisture levels in South Texas have a chance of keeping rain chances in the area for the rest of the week. Heat indices (105 degrees) Tuesday and Wednesday will start to come down as clouds and rain move into the area.
Tropics: The disorganized storm that is the remnant of Peter is moving northeastward at 10 mph and is several hundred miles southeast of Bermuda. Conditions are marginally conducive (moving into cooler water) for further development of this storm (50 percent chance in the next 2-5 days) that could once again become a tropical depression again in the next couple of days. By midweek, atmospheric conditions are expected to become unfavorable for further development.
Hurricane Sam is now a Major Category 4 Hurricane with winds at 150 mph (938 mb pressure) but is not likely to hit land (landfall) as the Jet Stream steer’s the storm further west into the Atlantic. Sam is moving northwest at 7 miles per hour (moving northward as well), but if the Jet Stream dips or moves further west or even meanders westward, then there is room for Sam to get very close to the U.S. next weekend. Even if Sam remains east of the U.S. late this week through next weekend, seas (could rise) along the Atlantic coast from central Florida to Maine with building surf and increasing rip currents. Th storm as of Sunday night was located roughly 880 miles to the east southeast of the Leeward Islands in the northeastern Caribbean Sea. Hurricane-force winds are extending out up to 30 miles from the center of the storm, and tropical-storm force winds were moving up to 90-miles from the center. Sunday’s reports and data expect Sam to remain a major hurricane for several days.
An un-organized low-pressure storm (moving westward at 5-10 mph) is developing several hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands. Favorable atmospheric conditions should allow this storm to become a depression (20-70 percent chance over the next 2-5 days) by the middle of the week.
A tropical wave is expected to move off the west coast of Africa today (Monday). Weak upper-level winds should allow this wave to become a tropical depression (20-70 percent chance over the next 2-5 days) in a few days as the system moves westward to west northwestward at 10-15 mph over the far eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean.
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