Our weather pattern will see little in the way of day to day changes for the rest of the week into the weekend. Expect partly cloudy, hazy, hot and humid conditions to continue with the chance of scattered daytime showers and a few storms Thursday. A slightly better chance of storms may develop for Friday and Saturday as another frontal trough approaches but runs out of gas before it reaches our parishes. The focus for best rain chances will likely continue for the northern part of the state and through the Arklatex. So the forecast will keep rain chances in the 30-40% range through the weekend with models trying to dry us out a little next week but I wouldn’t expect rain chances to go much lower than 20% at this time. Daytime highs will stay in the low-mid 90s each and every day through next week with heat indices approaching 105. It may get a little more interesting in 12-14 days as the long range models try to pinch a disturbance off of persistent upper trough over the southeast US and then have it drift southwestward into the Gulf and our vicinity…this is certainly a possible scenario for tropical development but we will have to see more model consistency before we jump on the bandwagon. Rob