Afternoon showers and thunderstorms will taper off into this evening. Overnight, skies will be partly to mostly cloudy as temperatures drop into the upper 60s by Thursday morning. A strong fall cold front is expected to move through East Texas on Friday, early enough in the day that highs on Friday will only be in the upper 60s and low 70s. As the front moves into the area, there will be a very low chance for a couple showers. Additionally, winds will shift and pick up out of the north. Wind gusts up to 30 mph and dry air behind the front will contribute to a very high fire danger on Friday. This weekend, temperatures will be cooler than normal for mid-October. Next week, temperatures climb back into the 80s and chances for rain return by the end of the week. The Climate Prediction Center continues to advise of heavy rain/flooding potential for East Texas towards the end of next week.
Today in weather history... October 14, 1909, a F3 tornado struck Pittsburg Landing and Stantonville, Tennessee, killing 24 people and injuring 80 others. Pittsburg Landing was reportedly "wiped off the map". Significant damage also occurred at the Shiloh National Military Park. Today's daily weather history segment comes to us courtesy of the Southeast Regional Climate Center.
This week's weather word is "euraquilo." (Also called euroaquilo, euroclydon.) A stormy wind from northeast or north-northeast in Arabia and the Near East. This definition comes from the American Meteorological Society's Glossary of Meteorology (2026).
Also on today's show, we'll look at the "jellyfish" cloud created by a SpaceX launch this week, and we're also following up on erosion from high surf in California. In closing, our satellite imagery of the day, showing a plume of water vapor from Hurricane Simon moves over the Central U.S., fueling severe thunderstorms over the region, courtesy of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere.
