Forecast Last Updated at Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 6:43AM

Pleasant Saturday

Skies will be generally sunny today with reduced humidity levels and slightly cooler temperatures. It should be a fine day to get outside and enjoy the weather. Sunday will be much the same, but we will have to entertain the threat for late-day and evening showers and thunderstorms. Much of next week will be dry, but it will feel like July should.

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Saturday Hi: 80 Lo: 60 Plenty of sunshine; Pleasant; NW wind 5-15 mph becoming calm tonight

Sunday Hi: 81 Lo: 63 Lots of sunshine, then more late-day cloud build-ups; Hit-or-miss showers & thunderstorms late-day into Sunday evening; Light SW wind

Monday Hi: 80 Lo: 59 Partly cloudy; An isolated daytime shower or thundershower; Nearly calm wind

Tuesday Hi: 82 Lo: 60 Sunny; Warm

Wednesday Hi: 84 Lo: 65 Generally sunny; Very warm

Further Out

Thursday - Scattered clouds; Very warm; Isolated afternoon thundershowers; High in the mid 80s; Low in the mid 60s
Friday - Sunshine followed by more PM clouds; Hit-or-miss PM showers & thundershowers; Very warm; High in the mid 80s; Low in the mid 60s

Forecast Discussion

A weak cold front has slipped east of the mountains, and drier air pushing in behind the front will provide some fine weather to kick off the weekend. Dewpoints are lower behind the front, and combine that with a northwesterly breeze, and it’s going to feel pretty good out there.

Most of Sunday won’t really be a whole lot different. After a refreshing start to the day with some wake-up temperatures in the 50s, it will be a mostly sunny daytime. We will be monitoring the progress of a seasonably strong upper-level disturbance that will pass through Sunday night. As a result, hit-or-miss showers and thunderstorms will push in fairly late in the day and into Sunday evening.

We will hold onto isolated thundershowers on Monday, then an upper level ridge of high pressure will build across the Southeast region, placing us solidly in a traditional mid-July weather pattern. That will feature very warm conditions with spotty PM thundershowers not returning again until Thursday and Friday afternoons.

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