8/4 - 9:30am - TS Edouard, Less Severe Threat

An area of disturbed weather off the coast of Louisiana got real organized yesterday, prompting the National Hurricane Center to skip the tropical depression designation and name it Tropical Storm Edouard. This storm could become a Cat 1 Hurricane by landfall:



Notice the pink areas along the Texas coast, that's a hurricane watch. Winds are up to 50mph now, and around 75 is the threshold for a hurricane. If it continues strengthening at this rate, then it'll have no problem getting to this point. Watch the oil prices rise...

Not much has changed for severe weather on Wednesday other than the SPC's outlook, which now has no area outlined for us. I still think we might see a couple severe storms around here, but the threat will be slightly magnified to our south. As I said yesterday, we'll only see fair instability which will inhibit storm growth. Instability will be even less in the south, but more moist air and shear will probably compensate just a little. So, expect mostly strong storms with a couple severe clusters embedded on Wednesday.

Tomorrow is our hot day for the week, with temperatures topping out around 96-97 in the area. The heat index will for sure top 100. Stay hydrated!