August 8-9

Well, if you were at least moderately comfortable, I bet that's gone!  The humidity that wasn't terribly high is back!  We are going to be dealing with high dew points through most of the work week ahead.  Rain today didn't make it to 5% coverage and there wasn't anything approaching strong levels.  I think most of the next day is very warm to hot - stuffy and muggy -- foggy/hazy with plenty of wildfire smoke overhead.  Any rain/storm/downpour looks isolated.  I think we begin to get in on ridge runner storm complexes beginning tomorrow night, most likely after 10 pm.  Timing isn't locked in, strength and movement isn't either.  However, as we get these kind of complexes around the periphery of a hot dome, strong to very strong winds, moderate to large hail...heavy to extremely heavy rainfall is possible to likely.  I can't rule out an isolated tornado threat.  Look for more in the way of afternoon thunderstorms Monday...with perhaps another complex Monday night.  There looks to be multiple waves of rainfall/storms before we get to the end of the work week.   We will see how quickly the hot dome slides west...how fast storm complex chances fade... and how soon we will knock down the heat and humidity.  THOSE DAYS ARE COMING IN THIS FORECAST!!  We should have a minimum of 10 days of much more tolerant, COOLER/LESS HUMID....drier weather ahead!  Remember, we should heat back up with more storms toward the end of the month...carrying us into Labor Day weekend!