Afternoon Update

Just a quick note here on what we are expecting for the rest of the day and evening.

The morning overcast started to break a little mid-day. Stiff south winds have kept dewpoints high, in the upper 60's to around 70. If you've been outside you can feel the humidity. As soon as a little sunshine hit this wet soil small showers started to show up on radar. It has really started picking up just in the last 30 minutes. Most of this activity is west and south of the metro with a thunderstorm forming over Brown Co. well to our southwest.

Let's be thankful for last nights surprise big rain;  winds are gusting around 25mph out of the south. We'd be in some high fire danger if not for the generous rain yesterday. The winds will stay up until late evening.

I am expecting the rain coverage to pick up through the rest of the afternoon. A few storms are possible but most of this will be patchy showers with mostly cloudy skies. Temepratures will likely reach into the upper 80's to right around 90 degrees. The rain will be moving SW to NE. Here is a look at what the HHHR paints in probablity by 5pm. Notice it puts the rain where it is right now; it looks like the rain rapidly orginizing in our southwest corner will make it to the metro area in about 2-3 hours.

All this  will die down after sundown (sun below horizon at 7:32, the days are getting shorter by almost 2 minutes a day this time of year five days away from the Fall Equniox). Lows tonight will be in low 70's with high humidity and a steady south wind.

It is appearing that another generous rain is possible tomorrow night into Monday morning. This would go a long way in keeping the high fire risk at bay. We'll have another breezy afternoon tomorrow.

Here is some of the rain totals from yesterday as posted on the NWS-FWD site. What a blessing in this drought, even if it did come on a Friday night of all times.