We’ve been watching StormTracker 13 light up with a few isolated showers and storms, some containing torrential downpours and lightning.
- Showers and storms this evening
- Rain chances lower this weekend
- Tracking the tropics: Lisa and Karl
Rain is set to wrap up before 9 p.m., with a clear to partly cloudy overnight. Low-end rain chances remain this weekend.
Boundary collisions are igniting hit-and-miss showers and storms again this evening. Locally heavy rain and lightning are our biggest threats, with activity wrapping up earlier than last night.
Our forecast for this weekend is a little different, thanks to slightly drier air remaining in our mid-atmosphere. Rain chances are now at 30 percent Saturday and 40 percent Sunday, with highs in the low 90s.
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Rain chances will increase next week to 50 percent.
In the tropics, Karl is expected to become a hurricane early Saturday, while Lisa will more than likely be downgraded. Another low just off of Africa now has a slight chance for tropical formation in the next five days as it moves west through the Atlantic.
Karl is nearing hurricane strength just south of Bermuda and is sending an increasing swell and higher waves toward our east coast. The biggest sets will be late in the day, with wave heights chest high at times. An increased long-period swell means a high rip current risk through this weekend.
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