Just Hot and Humid

Yesterday proved to be a very active day for the plains states once again with more than 50 reports of tornadoes, and most of which occurred in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa. Here's a look at the SPC's storm reports for yesterday.



We've also had our first named tropical system of the season, which WAS Tropical Storm Alma. It made landfall near Leon, Nicaragua and has since been downgraded to a tropical depression. In its final advisory, Alma had maximum sustained winds of about 25 mph and was continuing to track slowly off to the north at about 10 mph.

It looks like we'll stay dry throughout today and also Saturday, but by Sunday, we'll see a cold front begin to slowly work its way down from the north. We could possibly be seeing some showers and storms in here as early as sunday afternoon, but it looks like the heaviest rainfall will occur to the north and east of here as that front will stall around southern Tennessee. The SPC has already placed roughly the northern half of Mississippi in a slight risk for severe weather for tomorrow into Saturday and the northeastern quarter of Mississippi for Sunday into Monday. I don't look for anything like what the plains have been getting here lately, but some of these storms could produce some hail and strong winds. As far as temps go, it looks like we have hit summer even though the calendar does not say so. Expect high temps to be in the lower 90's and overnight lows only getting down into the mid and upper 60's. Combine that with dewpoints in the upper 60's and lower 70's, and we are looking at heat indices in the mid-upper 90's. It looks like we have finally hit that typical summertime heat and humidity.