KATC StormTeam 3 Weather BLOG

More heat and humidity with scattered showers and thunderstorms will stay with us as we “officially” head into summer at 6:59pm Friday. Once again on Friday we’ll see sea breeze showers and a few storms enhanced by a few disturbances that will continue to drop out of the Plains States. The models continue to be aggressive with upper level instability with enhanced thunderstorm activity for Saturday so I’m keeping the best coverage of storms for that day. Slightly drier and more stable air should advance into the region behind Saturday’s active system so rain chances should be lower. Heat and humidity with widely scattered afternoon storms will likely stay with us through much of next week. The long range outlook as we finish off June (toward the end of next week) and head into July will shift our pattern to more in the way of tropical easterlies. I would look for more tropical wave action in the Northwest Caribbean moving into the Gulf but there are currently no signals for anything significant at this time.