Thursday's Weather Thoughts

A heat wave is on the way that will likely last through the next week!

Today’s cooler weather was a brief respite from what appears will be a protracted, days long period of highs in the 90’s to perhaps over 100 in some locations, along with increasing humidity.

There were more clouds today than I expected yesterday at this time, and even a few sprinkles. In fact, some rumbles of thunder were heard this morning around North Platte and Thedford, though no heavy rain fell. This clouds and sprinkles were caused by a few weak disturbances travelling eastward that had just enough energy to produce the clouds and very light rain.

Tonight will be partly cloudy with still the risk of an isolated shower or storm with lows in the 60’s.

Then as hotter and more humid air begins to move northward Friday, a few more thunderstorms may develop during the afternoon and evening. But partly sunny skies and southerly breezes should allow highs to reach into the lower 90’s.

For the weekend, Saturday looks very hot with sunshine and just a chance of an isolated storm with highs in the upper 90’s to low 100’s. Sunday may be cooler but still very warm to hot as a cold front may push through the region, and this may cause a better chance of storms with highs from the upper 80’s to the middle 90’s.
Then next week looks mainly sunny and quite hot with highs conservatively in the middle 90’s each day, and with higher humidity levels there will be the chance of isolated storms each afternoon.

So get prepared for an extended period of heat and humidity.

Mike