WEATHER
Hazy, hot and humid weather will last through much of the weekend, until a better chance of storms FINALLY cracks the heat wave late Sunday.
We won’t cool off much tonight, only dropping to the the mid to upper 70s by early Saturday morning:
Then we’ll hit the mid to upper 90s again in the afternoon:
And the heat index will hover around 105° again too:
The Heat Advisory continues through Saturday evening:
Common sense, y’all: don’t overdo it in the heat, stay hydrated, find some A/C when you can. Make sure your pets have plenty of cool water as well!
The expiration of the heat advisory doesn’t mean that Sunday will be comfortable…far from it! High temperatures Sunday will still reach the low to mid 90s before that chance of thunderstorms develops:
The most-likely time frame for Sunday’s storms looks to be in the afternoon and evening — this is just one version of one forecast model, but it looks reasonable:
A few storms could be strong, but our severe weather threat looks borderline at this point. The Storm Prediction Center has included just the northeast corner of the Midstate in a “Marginal Risk” (level 1 of 5) for severe thunderstorms:
The unsettled weather pattern will continue through most of next week, with northwesterly flow in the upper levels of the atmosphere sending little ripples in our direction. That means a chance of storms each day, but plenty of breaks between those storms as well…it’s a notoriously hard-to-predict weather pattern:
The pattern change will keep temperatures near normal, right around 90° for highs, with lows in the low 70s:
LINKS
Last batch of nerd-links for the week…these will be a Wednesday-Thursday-Friday thing now, since that’s when I’ll be working.
- Everything you want to know about next month’s eclipse.
- If you live outside the “path of totality,” the eclipse will still present some teachable moments.
- Meteorologist Bob Ryan writes about his experiences “chasing” eclipses around the world.
- The strange story of the eclipse and the pendulum.
- “Extreme and aggressive” California wildfires have forced thousands of residents to evacuate
- The air pollution in China is so bad that the air caught on fire. (This is what happens when you don’t have an EPA.)
- SpaceX is changing up its plans for landing a spaceship on Mars.
- When we finally go to Mars, we might end up living in giant metal cans. (I’d still go.)
- After a new experiment, a team of physicists is sure that the proton is lighter than we previously thought. In fact, they’re positive. (GET IT???)
- Researchers have uncovered something strange in Usain Bolt’s world-record stride.
- The disease has been in the news, since John McCain has been diagnosed with glioblastoma. Here’s how doctors treat this aggressive form of brain cancer.
- Sniffing insulin might help people eat less. Seriously.
- Why dog breeds look so very different, but cats don’t.
- Tuna can swim nearly 10 times faster than Michael Phelps, and science has figured out how.
- The “Game of Thrones” home world could actually exist, according to astrophysicist Ethan Siegel. (And before you ask — no, it’s not historical, and no, it’s not Earth.)
