A cool front pushed into the panhandle overnight which will help to keep temps a bit cooler than yesterday, although still a few degrees above normal.  Unfortunately, this cool front will not impact the rest of the state and will retreat back to the north by tomorrow. Temperatures south of the front will remain well above seasonal averages today, and to varying degrees for the remainder of the work week ahead.

Highs today will be quite pleasant across the panhandle this afternoon, but much warmer and humid out ahead of the frontal boundary.  We’ll be flirting with some records today for Dallas, Waco, Houston, San Angelo and Midland, so we’ll see later on this afternoon how we did.  Unfortunately, it looks like we’ll continue with this above-average trend for the next 7 to 10 days with no significant cold fronts showing up in the long-range models during that timeframe.  Knowing how the weather works in our state, it will probably shift from “summer” to “winter” at some point in November, so we’ll just keep waiting!

As we’ve been talking about for the past couple of days, rain chances will return to the forecast this week as high pressure moves east and low pressure sets up to our west.  This low pressure system is looking like it will hang around over the desert southwest for a couple of days with little disturbances moving across our state through the week which will help generate daily chances for showers and perhaps a few thunderstorms.  At this time, we are not seeing much of a chance for severe weather, but we’ll keep an eye on the forecast as it refines and let you know if that changes.  Best rainfall chances at this time look to be across the coastal bend up into central and west central Texas, and up into the Trans Pecos region of west Texas…with most of the rainfall expected to arrive during the Tuesday afternoon through Saturday timeframe.