Showers and a few thunderstorms remain widespread over parts of Texas this morning. A few storms were heavy enough to produce minor flooding yesterday and overnight. As expected no severe weather or widespread flooding has occurred. We’re not through with the heavy rain chances just yet, though. With time through the day the heaviest rain chances should shift into South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley. An additional one to one and a half inches of rain may fall in those regions. Light to moderate rain with embedded heavy showers will remain possible through the evening across a large section of Texas. The Borderland, Texas Panhandle, and West Texas have drier air moving in and rain chances will be very low.

Isolated to scattered light showers will remain possible tonight across the eastern two-thirds of Texas. High moisture content in the lowest levels of the atmosphere mean widespread mist, fog, or very light rain can be expected tonight and for the morning hours Wednesday. It is not going to be a very nice day or night for most of Texas.

Rain chances will be low on Wednesday outside of the Rio Grande Valley where showers will remain possible. The morning will likely be foggy with mist or very light showers possible across the eastern two-thirds of Texas. Cloud cover will hang in tough tomorrow where moisture content remains high. Widespread rain chances will remain low through the weekend. Spotty showers will be possible daily and through the end of the week in the Permian Basin, Southwest Texas, into Deep South Texas.

With cloud cover hanging tough over the next few days high temperatures will be near or below average. Highs on Wednesday will only make it up into the 50s in the Panhandle, West Texas, and the Permian Basin. On the other hand overnight temperatures will tend to remain above-average where clouds hold in tough. We just don’t see much temperature variation with tough cloud cover. One exception will be in the Texas Panhandle tonight where the first freeze of the fall is expected across the northwestern half of the Panhandle. Temperatures should fall into the upper 20s to lower 30s.