Wet Again

It was a wet weekend across the area and that looks to continue today, but that's a good thing as many areas around the state remain in a rainfall deficit. Despite the wet period recently, I have growing concerns that we could see an extended dry period for the later half of the month and possibly into early June. Nevertheless, showers and some embedded thunderstorms are occurring this morning and this will likely continue at periods throughout the day. That doesn't mean today will be a total washout, but rain will likely fall for much of the morning hours and become more scattered this afternoon. A long band of precipitation extends into Oklahoma and is falling north of an old frontal boundary. Upper level disturbances riding near this boundary are serving as a focus for re-development of showers and thunderstorms. With extensive cloud cover and rain around all day, highs will be rather pleasant around 74 today.

A strong upper air disturbance will pass to our northeast by this evening and will turn the upper level flow more to the northwest. This will usher in cooler and drier conditions overnight, which will make for a very pleasant evening. A few clouds may continue to linger around, but I think we should drop to 59 in the morning.