9/10 - 4:30pm - Rain's Coming and so is Ike

Looks like we've got a pretty decent chance of rain starting tomorrow night and continuing through the weekend. While it won't rain that hard or for the whole time period, I think it'll be enough to perk up the grass around here. Just bring the umbrella along over the next few days.

Did anyone get outside early this morning? Brrr! That was the coldest low I think we've had since Spring and that could happen again tonight into tomorrow as well. As the rain comes in tomorrow evening for the weekend, our lows should be back in the upper 60's due to the moisture in the air. Highs should only top out in the lower 80's this weekend after a high in the mid 80's tomorrow.

Hurricane Ike looks like it will make landfall near Corpus Christi, TX as a Category 3 storm. The spaghetti chart looks very similar to the NHC's guidance, so I really don't need to post that:



Obviously this storm will cause quite a bit of flooding and inevitable wind damage on the Texas coast, so watch out for that if you have interests in that area. We could get some rain from Ike early next week, but the models are having difficulty deciding whether that is going to be true or not.