Marty’s Saturday Morning Forecast – Warm & Breezy – 6/1/19

Today: Partly cloudy, breezy and warm this afternoon with high temperatures in the 70s and 80s for the plains, mainly 60s for the mountains. Scattered thunderstorms are expected to develop from our local mountain areas eastward at about a 20% to 30% coverage this afternoon. While severe weather doesn’t look to be a widespread threat today, it is possible that a storm or two could briefly approach severe criteria over the plains this afternoon with hail to near an inch in diameter and thunderstorm wind gusts to near 60 mph the primary threats. Any stronger cell could produce brief downpours and frequent lightning as well, but again, not everyone should expect rain today.

Tonight: Evening thunderstorms should move east and then end with a partly cloudy sky expected for much of the night, but by morning some patchy low clouds may develop over the plains. Expect the air to cool into the 40s and 50s for most areas by morning.

Sunday: Becoming partly cloudy and breezy again with scattered thunderstorms possibly a bit more numerous across the area during the afternoon and evening hours as compared to Saturday; a couple of storms over the plains could become severe. Temperatures won’t change much across the area Sunday afternoon.

Extended: It finally appears we’re going to stay warm for a while with isolated to scattered thunderstorms expected most afternoons. Wednesday and Thursday will probably be the coolest days this week but high temperatures are still expected to reach the 70s to lower 80s across the plains. Friday and Saturday look to be very warm with high temperatures possibly reaching 80s to lower 90s across the plains, mainly 70s for the mountains.