Lots of good stuff. Corn ready?
Yeah. And I am so ready for this
rain that's coming down outside.
Got some heavy rain into downtown.
Nothing severe right now.
We're going to check on how it's
affecting the commute with Alana,
but let's get right to it.
In fact, just got this radar image in and
I'll show you exactly where it's falling.
Look, heavy rain right over downtown
crossing 410 and right around 281.
So you can see it's going to be
expanding farther, SE towards Elmendorf,
and this is the first bit of lightning.
That is starting to show up as well.
Again, nothing severe,
but lightning always a bit dangerous.
Take a look at this picture that just
came in from Sonia, Pruski and Stockdale.
Great shot. I mean,
you can actually see that rain falling,
isolated shower,
very dark cloud near Stockdale.
Good stuff, Sonia.
Thank you.
Alright, so again,
back to this because she's looking
right at some of this activity
to her north and northwest.
And now let me expand this view and
you'll see that this is just another
line that's popping in daytime heating.
Look east of Floresville see it right
over the highway 87 badge there,
almost right of center on your screen.
That is an isolated thunderstorm as well,
non severe.
Also Cuero down to Victoria's
getting more action.
You know,
Victoria's gotten rain almost
every day over the last week or so,
and moving into this evening it's
going to be widely scattered.
Most of this shower activity will
die down once we get the sun
setting and we lose daytime heating.
Few Saturday sprinkles will be possible,
but only a 20% chance as we
move into tomorrow.
There's the rain left side of your screen.
This is Calaveras Lake,
so we're looking N from Elmendorf,
and you can see that was the
rain that we're looking at.
Near downtown.
Temperature on the thermometer is 93.
Remember,
this is not taken from Calaveras Lake,
where this picture is.
This is San Antonio International at
4:10 and 281 E wind there near 12 mph,
dew point still high.
You can see where the rain is falling.
Floresville is at 78.
We're at 9390 at Bernie Kerrville,
9479 George West.
And Beeville 94 at Gonzalez in a feels
like 102 Heat index 10 threes down I-35.
I bring this up because we're
heading into the weekend.
You're gonna be outside more.
Please pay attention to your body.
It will communicate with
you quite efficiently.
If you're sweating, that's a good sign,
but remember to take breaks
if it's excessive.
But when you stop sweating,
this is 911 territory.
You start getting a headache.
You see your body temp and feel the chills.
That is really dangerous.
This heat can catch up quick.
The the humidity is gonna stay
in place even though we're
not hitting triple digits.
With dew points staying in the 70s
all the way through next week,
we're definitely going to be
getting heat indices that high.
And that's not the only
moisture in this atmosphere.
Look at the precipitable water.
Not an easy word to say or spell,
but there it is, precipitable water.
How much water is in the atmosphere
ready to rain out? A lot.
And this goes through Thursday.
So we're really high in moisture
content and with a few little
upper level disturbances available,
we've got rain chances across
the seven day forecast.
In fact, look at this.
The 8 to 14 day forecast has a good sloth,
if you will,
of South Texas and Southeast Texas in
that above average category for rainfall.
That is really good news.
We need it all right, seven day forecast.
And every one of these seven,
with the exception of one,
has a chance of rain.
Look for only isolated showers
over the weekend.
Both days will be around 94.
As we get into next week,
these are the disturbances that'll ignite.
A few more showers and a
little bit more widespread,
so we'll call it scattered on Monday.
Tuesday, Wednesday,
right at about 40 percent.
30% even into next Thursday.
Heading to the coast Saturday and Sunday,
looking good.
Rain chances begin Monday.
South Padre Island as well.
And maybe even seeing a shower or
thunderstorm by Monday in the state capital.
So Saturday and Sunday in all directions.
Looking pretty good,
Alana.
But I want to know about all
directions on the Friday commute.
We got to get people to their weekend.