June 27-28

There aren't a lot of updates to the forecast moving forward.  The biggest potential change would be storm chances for Sunday night.  It appears that the atmosphere will become pretty capped in the afternoon.  We will see if this materializes.  If it does, that doesn't mean that we won't have a couple of storms popping up.  The odds for Tuesday afternoon/evening storms looks lower than it has the last couple of days.  Thursday afternoon/night and Friday -- the storm chances look there -- we will see how widespread.  There is A data set that wants to keep storms around for Independence Day.  Right now, I am going with the rest of the data that is showing partly to mostly sunny skies.  As we get into the week ahead, the exact idea for the 4th will come into better vision.  I will state again - temperatures are going to be hot.  We should be hot at times in late June and July.  Temperatures will be from 6-10 degrees warmer than normal.  IT IS THE HEAT INDEX that will be the problem.  With soils as saturated as they are, dew points are going to be sky high.  Somewhere between Monday and Thursday WILL see a dew point over 80 degrees, which is as humid as it gets here.  Be prepared for intense heat indices, and heed the advisories and warnings for heat that will come out for next week.  Just beyond the forecast period, we should become initially more stormy ...the hot dome for us breaks down...and then cooler, drier, LESS HUMID air should arrive.