Partly cloudy skies will become mostly cloudy overnight as temperatures drop into the 70s. While it will likely be too breezy for widespread fog development overnight, low-level clouds and some patchy fog will be possible early Tuesday. Both Tuesday and Wednesday will feature partly cloudy skies with chances for showers and thunderstorms. It will also be hot both afternoons; highs will be in the 90s through Thursday. By Friday, a strong cold front will be moving into East Texas, dropping highs into the 70s for Saturday. Cooler air will continue to filter into the area Saturday night and drop lows into the 40s and 50s by Sunday morning. The break from the heat appear short-lived as highs will be back in the upper 80s towards the end of next week. Along will the warming trend next week looks to come higher chances for rain as well.
Today in weather history... October 12th, 1979, Typhoon Tip, located around 520 miles west-northwest of Guam, reached a world-record low minimum central pressure of 870 millibars.
Tip also set a world record for tropical cyclone size, as it achieved a peak diameter of ~1,380 miles. Today's daily weather history segment comes to us courtesy of the Southeast Regional Climate Center.
Also on today's show, we'll have updates on the damage left behind Hurricane Isaias over the weekend. Finally, our satellite imagery of the day, showing power outages in the western Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama as a result of Hurricane Isaias, courtesy of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere.
