Tuesday's Weather Thoughts

The beautiful streak of weather continues, but will it continue through the Fourth of July weekend?

A large ridge of high pressure is in control of our weather, and will remain in control through Friday. Each day will be bright and sunny with highs right around the 90 degree mark, but it will be breezy with winds gusting up and over 30mph at times.

Nights will be mainly clear and pleasant with lows in the 60’s, and breezy conditions will continue.

Humidity will slowly increase so it may become a bit more uncomfortable especially in the afternoon and later in the week.

After that, a trough pushing eastward from the West Coast will begin to affect our weather bu pushing a cold front towards Greater Nebraska during Saturday. Isolated thunderstorms may develop as high reach the lower 90’s with some sunshine. But the greatest chance of storms, perhaps some severe ones with heavy rainfall, may occur unfortunately from Saturday night through Independence Day on Sunday as the front interacts with some moisture that may stream northward from what is left of Tropical Storm Alex, which is expected to become a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico tonight. Alex will make landfall in northern Mexico but close enough to southern Texas to cause high winds and flooding rains. While the storms winds will diminish overland, its moisture will move into the Plains during the weekend so while it may not rain the entire weekend, it certainly appears that the weather will not be as nice as it is right now.

Stay tuned to KNOP NEWS 2 and KNOPNEWS.COM for updates on your holiday weekend forecast.

Mike