A juicy tropical air mass has enthralled the region with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Organized storm clusters, know as meso-convective complexes have been responsible for up to a foot of rain in and near the Golden Triangle area in Southeast Texas last night and during the day today. It will continue to be quite difficult in pin-pointing where the heaviest of storms will be tomorrow, as most of this activity is being governed by outflow boundaries aloft. Light upper winds are keeping the storms nearly stationary at times, thus the threat of gully-washers again tomorrow.Â
A weak tropical wave is pushing westward across the Gulf which should begin to push the storms back toward Texas tomorrow with more stable air likely in the wake of the wave. So our rain chances should go down Wednesday and Thursday but there will still be some scattered activity. A weak frontal trough will approach from the north by Friday triggering another round of storms, some of which could be strong. Thereafter I expect drier conditions and lower humidity for the upcoming weekend…but temperatures will still stay hot.Â
Rob Perillo