Weather

Cooler than average temperatures have graced our area in the last day or so, but we’ll briefly go above average for a couple days. Rain chances go up, then temperatures drop again toward the end of the week in our Tri-Cities Weather Blog Forecast. Here’s the outlook to start:

• Tonight-Partly cloudy skies. Low 57.
• Wednesday-Sunny during the day, clear skies overnight. High 88, low 66.
• Thursday-Increasing clouds with gusty wind and scattered showers and storms. High 88.
• Friday-Cloudy with scattered showers and a few thunderstorms. Highs near 80.
• Saturday-Mostly sunny, high 83.

In the winter, we get fronts every couple days and pretty big temperature changes. In summer, most of the time all that changes is a few degrees temperature and a humidity drop. That’s what we just saw, and will happen again in the next few days.

Forecast begins on Wednesday with one of the hotter days of the week, as we’ll see upper 80s and sunshine all day long. Thursday looks warm as well, but as the day wears on, showers and storms will be developing. I feel like enough sunny skies will keep us at the upper 80s by the end of the day, but some gusty winds may keep that from happening.

Those storms are because of a combination of a front moving in and low pressure in the western Gulf near Texas that will be headed our way. It could end up as a tropical storm and it might not, but it’ll bring rain to us either way. The rain and storms could be pretty heavy and strong, respectively, on Thursday, so be aware of that. Cold front moves through Friday morning, and the rain and storms will end by afternoon after that, leading to a sunny start to Father’s Day weekend.

It does appear that the weekend will be dry, with sunshine each day and highs in the low to mid 80s. That’s the good news in the forecast, as humidity won’t be awful thanks to the cold front moving through.

Thanks for checking here for the forecast!