Disturbed weather forecast for Thursday

WAlthough rain in parts of the Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday was mostly beneficial, the National Weather Service warns that conditions on Thursday could be more troublesome.

As of 4 p.m. Tuesday, the area from Brownsville to east Los Fresnos to Harlingen and northern Hidalgo County received 1/4 inch to 1 1/2 inches of rain, the NWS/Rio Grande Valley office in Brownsville reported. .

Tuesday’s rain was mostly beneficial because there was no warm, humid air ahead that brought hail like the one that hit the McAllen area on Friday and damaging winds that battered the area, said Barry Goldsmith, warning coordination meteorologist with the NWS’s Brownsville office. Near Los Fresnos on Sunday afternoon.

Thursday’s forecast “will mainly be set for heavy rain, potentially damaging winds and lightning. “Those are the key factors for Thursday,” Goldsmith said early Tuesday afternoon.

The valley has been in an active weather pattern for about the past two weeks, “which means there are weather systems moving through the area every few days, bringing welcome rain, and fronts that keep the weather from getting too hot,” Goldsmith said. When they have warm, humid air ahead of them, bringing hail and wind damage in recent days.

“The good news about that is that unlike last Friday and Sunday, we didn’t get warm, humid air before that enough to create instability in the atmosphere to make the rain fall with a lot of thunder and lightning and gusts of wind and hail. That’s not happening today.” “It’s very beneficial rain,” Goldsmith said.

He said Wednesday’s weather should be a mix of sunshine and clouds, with winds returning to warm southeasterly winds and temperatures rising to the upper 80s and lower 90s.

Thursday’s forecast “will mainly be set for heavy rain, potentially damaging winds and lightning. “Those are the key factors for Thursday,” Goldsmith said early Tuesday afternoon.

Forecasters are anticipating a stronger disturbance in South Texas during the day on Thursday, Goldsmith said.

“Although I’m not exactly sure how the timing is going to work out, we’re going to encounter more humid air than we have now, maybe not as much as we had on Friday but perhaps similar to what we had on Sunday. Although we’re not explicitly forecasting the weather The harsh weather conditions we saw last Sunday will start on Thursday, but the possibility is there, so people will need to keep an eye on the weather tomorrow for any updated forecasts for the possibility of Thursday being a little harsher.