After some rain this morning, our severe weather threat for today has diminished. The atmosphere can't recover enough for severe storms to form this afternoon, so we'll have some soaking rains instead. All this is left over from Hurricane Dolly, which made its rounds through the West and is now here to give us some rain.
The next item of business is heat. I'll be quite blunt, we'll see temperatures near 100 this weekend, particularly on Sunday. One aspect of this that isn't helping is the lack of any rain for this weekend. With sunny skies, solar heating will only make the temperature nudge higher. If some of the computer models are right, we actually could see triple digits on Sunday. Nobody, including myself, is getting on this bandwagon yet. If the model continues to show this by Friday, you can bet you'll see triple digits on forecasts for Sunday from just about everybody. Let's not forget about last year's heat... 105 in August is something I don't want to see happen again.
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I question the whole, "remnants of Dolly" aspect of the forecast. Not to say that you (and many others who claimed this) are wrong and I am right. Moreso, to state that a hurricane that hits South Texas, moves through the Rockies, loses all of its moisture (save for the humid atmosphere in place along the path), is indeed still a part of a once tropical cyclone. Usually treks through the mountains end the lives of tropical systems. At least that is what Jim Cantore says! Ha.
Anyways, it is probably a debateable issue with both side being partially correct.
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