A String of Nice Weather and Tropical Storm Harvey Update

What started as another foggy day has now turned into beautiful scenery.  Some locations up north didn't see any fog at all, including Monroe and Beloit.  The reason for this was that winds were a little faster up north, at around 5-6mph.  Doesn't sound like much, but its enough to make it difficult for fog to form. Nice, sunny skies now dominate the Stateline and it'll stay this way through mid day.  Clouds will build going through the afternoon, but we'll still get plenty of sunshine with temperatures in the upper 70's to low 80's.  The skies will clear again for the evening, but then a weak cold front will move down from the north, bringing chances for rain during the overnight, as early as 1am.

The rain will linger until the early, moving out of our area around 7am.  Once the rain clears out, the cool inflow will continue in our area, keeping temperatures in the mid 70's for tomorrow afternoon.  However, we'll get plenty of sunshine to go along with it.

As we head into the weekend, a high pressure system will dominate our area, keeping our skies nice and sunny, which will allow our temperatures to gradually warm up going into the weekend.  We'll peak in the mid 80's by Monday, but our storm chances will increase Monday evening when a cold front moves through.  After the front, we're expecting cooler temperatures through the rest of the work week next week.

Tropical Storm Harvey:

Harvey has now moved back onto the land, but the rain keeps coming and moisture is now being pulled into Louisiana.  There's still some heavy rain occurring in eastern Texas; Beaumont being on of the areas.  Rainfall between now and Saturday is expected to expand from Louisiana

up north to parts of southern Illinois, and even over into Kentucky.  Rain accumulation between now and Saturday is much lower compared to the passed few days, but some places are still expected to see around 10 more inches of rain.

Harvey will track northeast as we head into the weekend, and more than likely will become a Tropical Depression by the time Friday rolls around.  The system will move into Kentucky on Saturday, dying out by the evening.  Total rain accumulations from when Harvey struck to when it's expected to die off will total 50" in a few locations.  Multiple flood warnings still in place in southeast Texas, with numerous Flash Flood Warnings now in place over Louisiana.