A Rainy Weekend and Tropical Storm Harvey Update

Not exactly the way we wanted to start the weekend with all the rain, and unfortunately the rain will linger with us through the evening.  However, as we go into the late-night hours, we'll start to see a few breaks in the rain.  We'll stay mostly cloudy during the overnight, even with the breaks in the rain, and temperatures will be a little warmer in the low to mid 60's.  More rain will move in tomorrow morning though, as a cold front will approach our area.

The front will move in around 1pm, where we'll start to see a few thunderstorms develop out in our western counties.  The front won't move a whole lot during the afternoon, which will keep the storms lingering in a few areas.  The front will slowly track eastward during the evening, moving halfway through the Stateline by around 10pm.  At this point, thunderstorm development will be hindered since it'll be cooler overall, so the front won't have much to work with.  However, we may see a little bit of rain during the overnight. 

The front will towards our eastern counties around 1pm on Monday, by which temperatures will be warm enough to trigger some storm development along the front, but these storms would be confined to our eastern counties during Monday afternoon.  The front will clear out around 7pm Monday evening, after which we'll stay dry for the most of the week before more rain moves in Friday night for the weekend.

Temperatures will stay in the upper 70's to start the week, even after the cold front moves out as there will be a good amount of sunshine.  We'll dip to the mid 70's for Thursday and Friday, before warming up a little more for next weekend, but the warmth and moisture will help fuel showers and thunderstorms.

Tropical Storm Harvey Update:
Harvey is now a Tropical Storm as winds have gone down to 65 mph.  However, the storm is nowhere near done with the Texas Coastline, as multiple storm surge warnings and flood warnings are still in place in many areas.  There have also been multiple tornado warnings, and the tornado warnings keep climbing.  As of this writing, there's been 16 total tornado reports since yesterday evening, some of which were in Houston and Galveston.

Heavy rainfall is also still occurring, with many locations still expected to see over 20" of rain after the storm dies down, and a few isolated locations could very well see up to 40" inches of rain.  The storm is still expected to die down by the middle of next week.