Forecast for Thursday, August 16, 2018

Another somewhat busted forecast yesterday. No wonder people don’t trust weather folk! We did have some morning showers across the metro, bur after that, nada. What happened? Sinking air once again the culprit. Once a disturbance moved through in the morning, sinking air on the back side of said disturbance put the kibosh (kibosh I tell you) on further development despite the National Weather Service hanging on to a 40% chance last night. Sigh. I’ll give News 4 Tucson Meteorologist Jeff Beamish credit. He nailed it on his Noon show! So what about today? Let’s take a stab at it! LOTS of moisture in place. Cloud cover too with a few light showers already this morning (half the calories of our regular showers). Another disturbance headed our way with just a little bit of heating through the cloud cover should be enough to get storms going this afternoon. Heavy rain possible too with all that juicy air in place. We’ll see! Mostly cloudy today with a 50% chance for showers and storms and a high near 90. Mostly cloudy tonight with a 30% chance and a low in the low 70s.

High pressure moving back our way for drier air, more sunshine, warmer temperatures, but still a slight chance for storms (except Sunday). 10%/30% tomorrow upper 90s. 20%/20% Saturday upper 90s. Mostly sunny Sunday 101ish. 20%/20% Monday 100. 20%/10% Tuesday 100. 10% Wednesday 100.

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