Hey everyone, here is a weather update for the next 7 days. Overall things have been fairly boring due to a high pressure system entrenched across the southern plains, fairly typical for this time of year. More of the same is expected to occur until Thursday night and Friday.
Daytime highs for Monday thru Thursday will wobble around in the mid 100s every day, with little variation in the weather pattern we have encountered the last few days. Partly cloudy skies are possible Monday and slightly breezy conditions on Tuesday, otherwise it will be clear skies, calm air and hot. Humidity will drop slightly after Monday which will put us just under heat advisory criteria.
A cool front is forecast to move through the area on Friday, which will encounter rich moisture that is also forecast to be in the area. These two combined will create conditions favorable for thunderstorms anytime from Thursday night through Friday. Storms may be possible this weekend as well but confidence in this is low and only a 10% chance is in the forecasts. Daytime highs on Friday are only 94 degrees due to the increased cloud cover and rain cooled air. No severe weather is anticipated at this time.
On a side note, NOAA has observed El Nino conditions in the Pacific Ocean, which is likely to persist into 2010. This means the Pacific Ocean is about 1 degree celcius above normal, altering weather patterns globally. I did a little research on this and an El Nino winter in North Texas means wetter, stormier and warmer than normal. This compares with the past winter in which the Pacific Ocean was exactly neutral. Neutral conditions are a tad ambiguious for this area with weather extremes of all types occuring. However, the most intense wintertime snow falls in north Texas occur during neutral years, this past winter being an exception. When I looked at long range climbate forecasts for this area the forecasts do agree with El Nino conditions, bringing warmer than normal and wetter than normal conditions to the area for winter.
