The weather for the rest of the workweek will be very similar to what we saw today – warm and sunny. In fact, this may be the longest stretch of fair weather that we have experienced in quite some time.
The beautiful summerlike weather is being caused by an upper-level ridge of high pressure that will control our weather until we get to the weekend. Southerly to southeasterly winds will transport warm air into the region, and highs through Friday will be near 90. The ridge will also keep skies mainly sunny.
Unfortunately, the trough looks like it will begin to progress eastward as we approach the long Fourth of July weekend, and as a trough approaches from the west, a frontal system may be close enough to Greater Nebraska to introduce a slight chance of thunderstorms Saturday.
Complicating matters is Tropical Storm Alex, now spinning in the Bay of Campeche off the west coast of Yucatan Mexico. Alex is expected to intensify to hurricane strength during Tuesday, and move in the general area of northern mainland Mexico and the lower Texas coast. While this track is not set in stone, it appears that after Alex makes landfall later Wednesday into Thursday that the storm will weaken and begin to move west and north. Over the weekend, the remnant moisture from the storm may ride northward into the Plains, and could enhance rainfall around our region Sunday and especially Monday. If this occurs, some of the rain could be heavy and this would not be good for our area since the region has been deluged lately and has not yet had a chance to dry out significantly. So stay tuned for updates on Alex for the remainder of this week, and we will let you know if and when any rainfall from Alex will affect our area.
Mike
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