KATC StormTeam 3 Weather BLOG

The dreary skies will stay with us through Thursday evening with occasional periods of rain likely tonight and tomorrow.  Drier but not necessarily clear conditions will return Thursday night into Friday.  The models appear to at least keep some high clouds in the area Friday, so at best we’ll call it partly sunny. Another upper disturbance will roll in Saturday bringing more cloud cover and a few showers, but most of the weather with this next system will be confined to the Gulf of Mexico, where it continues to be miserable for our offshore workers.  Colder, drier, more stable air with fair skies are anticipated Sunday through Tuesday.  Temperatures during this time frame are quite tricky to forecast as there will be plenty of arctic air poised just to our north and east.  Right now the models think we may just get clipped by the cold air so we’ll keep temperatures about 10-15 degree below normal for Sunday through Tuesday.  Unfortunately, our cloudy, wet and cool pattern will resume late next week and will probably carry through the second week of the month