Periods of Showers and Isolated Thunderstorms Are Likely for Much of the Work Week...

An upper level weather system will move over Texas from the West starting Monday and will linger across the region into Friday of this week.

Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms will form across the local area in association with this feature...but this is not a situation where it will rain all of the time nor at every location for significant time periods. Instead, the rain will likely be occasional to periodic in nature across the local region. While a shower or an isolated thunderstorm is possible anytime during the week, the afternoon to early evening hours of each day would likely be most favored - especially for any isolated thunderstorms. The activity may also tend to be somewhat more numerous on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons...with the activity perhaps being less numerous on the other days this week.

Average total rainfall of 0.25-0.75 inch is expected with this event across the local area (for the period Monday through Friday). Locally higher amounts mainly in the 0.75 to 1.25 inch range are possible in some spots, especially in association with isolated thunderstorm activity.

Please note that rainfall will be more widespread and much heavier to the West of the local area - out over the Hill Country and into southwest and west-central Texas where total rainfall in excess of 6 inches is possible this week.


We will continue monitoring the situation and issue updates as conditions warrant.

Strong and Gusty North Winds Likely Next Wednesday...

A strong cool front will move South into the local area on Wednesday of next week. The passage of this front will cause winds to shift to the North-Northeast and increase to 15-20 mph on a sustained basis with frequent gusts to around 30 mph.

Present indications suggest the winds will begin increasing between 6am and 9am on Wednesday, peak between 12 Noon and 6pm and then decrease after 6pm on the same day.

We don't typically give a heads-up on gusty winds (of a "non-severe" nature) this far in advance, but with structural and other repairs being made in parts of the area due to recent incidents involving Hurricane Harvey, we wanted to provide as much advance notice as possible that arrangements should be made if any wind-sensitive activities were planned for mid-week next week, particularly on Wednesday.