Beneficial Rain for Labor Day Weekend… Friday Forecast Update — 4:30pm

Good Friday evening to you! Another hot and mostly dry week is behind us, and for most, a three day Labor Day weekend is on hand!

For tonight, we will see slowly increasing cloud cover across the state ahead of a line of energy that will spark thunderstorms tomorrow morning in Louisiana and Arkansas before moving east across Mississippi and into Alabama Saturday afternoon and evening. Lows for Friday night will be just a touch warmer in the low 70s thanks to mostly cloudy skies. 

Mostly cloudy skies will remain for the first half of the weekend with those storms moving through Saturday afternoon and evening. There appears to be a good shot of much needed rain out of these storms, although at times the downpours could be quite heavy. High temperatures on Saturday will be cooler with the extra cloud cover in the upper 80s.

Sunday will see mostly cloudy skies once again with some more scattered storms during the day; although with slightly less widespread coverage across the state, some people may not see a storm at their house. Highs for the day on Sunday will be right around that 90 degree mark.

Labor Day Monday looks to be the driest day of the weekend which is good news for many. There will still be a chance for some storms across the area on Monday afternoon, so keep an eye on the skies as you go about your cook outs, picnics, and other plans for your Labor Day.

The 4 day work week next week will be warm and mostly dry like this week with highs in the mid 90s and a couple stray storms popping up each afternoon.

As for the Tropics, Cristobal has officially become an extra-tropical storm moving north toward Iceland; however there is a cluster of storms that are being monitors in the southern Caribbean which have potential to slowly develop over the next 5 days. This cluster of storms will move northwest over the Yucatan Peninsula, and into the southwestern Gulf by early next week. As the weekend progresses, we will be better able to assess where this cluster may go, and whether or not it will develop into a tropical system.

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Peter Crank

WVUA Staff Meteorologist

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