Following a beautiful and bright day yesterday, gray skies return with a chance of rain on what could be the busiest travel day of the year. Be careful out there! It's an overall 30% rain chance here at home. And it's going to feel pretty chilly out there all day, too, with high temps only in the mid 50s.
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We've been tracking a Pacific disturbance that moved from near Baja California yesterday at sunrise to near the Texas Panhandle just 24 hours later, and it's on the go. Just enough moisture has returned to our local atmosphere in order to generate a few showers and maybe a thunderstorm or two as we go through the afternoon to early evening, then the disturbance should move swiftly to the east tonight.
Our latest computer models show hit-or-miss rain mostly along and south of the I-10 corridor through midnight, then all the precipitation should move out of the Lone Star State by daybreak tomorrow.
The Thanksgiving forecast looks a tad bit warmer than today, with morning 40s giving way to afternoon highs in the low to possibly middle 60s. Clouds will hold pretty thick overhead yet we think the sun will peek through from time to time.
Another Pacific disturbance will track across Texas on Friday with at least a 20% chance for rain, and most of that would likely fall in the morning hours. In the wake of the front, a dry west wind will help clear the area out pretty quickly for Friday afternoon, bringing back some sunshine.
Temperatures should get back up into some comfortable 70s both Friday & Saturday before a polar cold front races through the region Sunday morning, bringing a chilly north breeze back to Central TX.
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--Chief Meteorologist Burton Fitzsimmons (@Burton_Spectrum)