High moving out, rain moving in!

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Hot and muggy out there today with most locations seeing a heat index of 100 or more degrees as of 3pm. High pressure will move to our west, centering itself over the four corners by Tuesday. This will allow sea breeze storms to form in the afternoon and not get squished by the evil high! On Thursday, a dying cool front will move into our area, bolstering our rain odds even more, through the weekend. As I mentioned yesterday, this will not be a drought breaker, but most of the models are forecasting 1/2 to an inch for most locations from Tuesday-Sunday. If you want more rain than that, root for the Canadian model, which is forecasting 2-4 inches of rain for many of us!

As far as the tropics go, Hurricane Erin lost a little strength over the past 24hrs and is now a cat 3 storm with sustained winds of 125mph, but is expected to gain some strength over the next couple of days as it moves NW. There is a tropical wave off the coast of Africa that has a 30% chance of becoming a depression over the next week. The GFS model continues to think it might become a hurricane in the Gulf in the next 10 days, but for now, none of the other models agree, so let’s not worry about it for now.

Mark