After days of forecasting headaches and tracking, Hurricane Francine will make landfall later today, a few hundred miles east of the Texas/Louisiana state lines. The hurricane is moving northeast, and it looks like it’ll pass very near New Orleans this evening. The Louisiana and Mississippi coastline will have to deal with a dangerous storm surge. Strong winds will continue with Francine, along with flooding rains, as it moves inland into Mississippi and Alabama on Thursday.
Back in the Lone Star State, we’ll see scattered to numerous showers in the Ark-La-Tex, Northeast Texas, East Texas, the Brazos Valley east of Interstate 45, Southeast Texas, and the Golden Triangle today. That’ll be it regarding any additional weather impacts from Francine for us. A few folks may pick up one-half inch to one inch of rain. Otherwise, our coastal flooding concerns will decrease after this morning, and we may sometimes see gusty winds in the Golden Triangle. Isolated showers may continue in the mentioned regions on Thursday, but coverage will be far less than today.
Say goodbye to our fall preview because summer is returning to Texas. A few folks in South Texas will top out in the upper 90s this afternoon, but it won’t be until Thursday, Friday, and Saturday that most of Texas experiences a return of late summer. High temperatures will be hottest on Friday and Saturday across Texas, with many locations topping out in the upper 90s to lower 100s. Humidity levels will markedly increase across the eastern half of the state. Overnight temperatures will also be back up into the 60s and 70s versus the 40s and 50s. Nearly all of Texas will be dry on Friday. Rain chances will return to the Rio Grande Valley and Deep South Texas this weekend, with rain totals of one-tenth to one-half inch possible. It’ll be dry elsewhere in Texas. Wildfire danger will increase over the next few days across the western half of Texas.
The long-range weather looks to remain toasty, with no indication of our next fall cool front. We may move into a more active weather pattern in about a week, with some indications that the fall severe weather season may kick into gear across western portions of Texas. We’ll see, but it won’t be long before we have to deal with stormy mischief again.
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