Forecast Last Updated at Monday, August 19, 2019 at 6:29PM

Late Summer Heat & PM Thunder

Hot and humid conditions will continue for a few more days before returning closer to normal by late in the workweek. Scattered showers and thunderstorms continue this evening mainly along and south of I-40 before dying out by midnight. More isolated stuff is expected further northward. The weather pattern remains rather unsettled for the rest of the week and into the upcoming weekend.

Monday Hi: 91 Lo: 67 Mostly to partly cloudy; Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mostly before midnight; Calm wind

Tuesday Hi: 88 Lo: 67 A good deal of sunshine with scattered PM showers & thunderstorms; Rather hot & humid; Light south wind

Wednesday Hi: 88 Lo: 67 Partly to mostly sunny; Scattered mostly PM showers & thunderstorms; Rather hot & humid; Light SW wind

Thursday Hi: 87 Lo: 67 Partly to mostly cloudy; PM showers & thunderstorms likely

Friday Hi: 84 Lo: 65 More clouds than sun; Showers & thundershowers likely, mostly PM

Further Out

Saturday - Lots of clouds; A few showers; Cooler; High in the lower 80s; Low in the lower 60s
Sunday - Mostly cloudy; Showers possible; High near 80 degrees; Low in the lower 60s

Forecast Discussion

It’s a fairly typical late-summer weather regime with temperatures running about 5-degrees above normal. The heat and increasing humidity will give rise to widely-separated, mostly PM showers and thunderstorms.

The main weather map feature this week will be a cold front that will approach the region on Thursday, inch very slowly through the state during Friday, with high pressure wedging in from the north by Saturday and Sunday.

This slow evolution will promote a gradual ramp-up in shower and thunderstorm activity going into Thursday. Showers and thundershowers will be likely Friday into Saturday, with cooler temperatures behind the front as the high noses in from the north. Expect a lot more cloud cover from Thursday into next weekend.

Rainfall has been rather spotty this August, so many areas could actually use the increased rainfall this week.

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