High pressure over the Central Plains is building south over Texas featuring hot weather through the next several days. This is stabilizing the atmosphere and drying the air, so only a few showers are expected along the coast and northeastern Texas Wednesday.

Even though we will stay dry for a while, the beneficial effects of our last rain event will linger for weeks. During the hotter summers, the combination of dry conditions and hot temperatures can develop into a feedback loop. That’s where things get drier and hotter each day with the dryness reinforcing the heat and vice-versa. The result is usually a string of 100+ degree days.

But with South Central Texas now well moistened, daytime heating will be limited by higher humidity, which absorbs some of the heat. The end result will still be hot weather, but with far fewer 100+ degree days.

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The hot and dry trend is forecast for the rest of the week and through the weekend. Expect the summer pattern of morning clouds and afternoon sun with highs in the middle and upper 90s with morning lows in the middle 70s. Highs will push into the upper 90s next week.

See the details in the Seven Day Forecast.

Dan Robertson

Twitter: @TexasThunderman

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