KATC StormTeam 3 Weather BLOG

Of course after a so-so weekend the weather has improved nicely and it looks great through midweek.  A return flow from the Gulf will commence Wednesday afternoon ushering higher humidity and milder overnight lows toward the end of the week.  Daytime highs will be in the upper 70s to near 80 tomorrow and Wednesday but should push well into the mid-80s late this week into the weekend.  A series of disturbances and a weakening frontal boundary over Southern Louisiana should make for some unsettled weather Friday through weekend.  Eventually there will be a pretty good chance of slow-moving storms developing for early next week.  We do need the rain as most of us have been at or below normal rainfall for the month of April with greater deficits in Acadiana along and south of the I-10 corridor per the NWS Precipitation Analysis.  We may be heading for a mild drought unless we get good rains this weekend and early next week.  The upper pattern does look active enough through the one to two week period into May so there should be some active shower and thunderstorm days ahead.