HOLIDAY WEEKEND CONTINUES WITH PLEASANT WEATHER
Updated at 5:45 pm Saturday July 5th, 2008
by Storm Team Meteorologist Danielle Dozier

Grass fires can easily spark especially when vegetation is dry and we've been dealing with dry conditons for a little while now.  The good news is that there is a tropical like air mass that's heading our way and looks to bring better rain chances to our forecast by mid week.

It's not a tropical storm that's going to give us our rain chances but little disturbances in the atmosphere.  However, there is a tropical storm brewing in the Atlantic, the second one of the season...Tropical Storm Bertha.  For those of you who like to track hurricanes...this storm is not heading our way but rather to the East Coast.

What is heading our way is some tropical moisture that will be pumping in from the Gulf throughout the week.  Rain chances could be going up so keep it tuned to KTXS.

Tonight, expect generally clear skies with lows near 69 degrees.  Winds will be south at 10-15 mph. Tomorrow, expect a mixture of sun and clouds with a high near 90 degrees.  Slight chances of thunderstorms are possible for the Big Country due to daytime heating.  Winds will be SSW at 10-20 mph.

Cloud cover will increase throughout the week and so will the moisture as we will insert 10% chances of t'storms for Wednesday and Thursday.


Have a great night!

SUMMER OUTLOOK
Updated at 5:30pm on Friday July 4th , 2008
by Storm Team Chief Meteorologist Damon Lane

        In the 6-10 day outlook,the tropics will be of particular interest during this time and because of this, it's likely that temperatures could remain near normal to above normal status.  But, the rain chances could be plentiful, which means above normal rain chances are likely.

In the 8-14 day outlook, this tropical feature should be out of the region by then which means the atmosphere should start to recooporate.  Thus, normal temperatures and normal chances of rain.

We really dodged a bullet this past winter as we have been tracking La Nina since late last year.  We knew that this winter was going to be a dry one,  but  as we mentioned before, La Nina tends to become a little less active during the spring season. The region of cooler than normal ocean temperatures is showing signs of weakening, which means that temperatures and rain chances for the summer season may trend closer to normal.  Because of this, the summer outlook will see normal rain chances and normal temperatures. Farewell La Nina...for now.

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