A few isolated showers and thunderstorms will be possible Thursday evening, primarily in Deep East Texas. Temperatures will fall into the middle 70s overnight. Friday will be sunny to mostly sunny with highs in the upper 90s, and triple digits for some. Lower humidity Friday afternoon and evening should make for a somewhat more tolerable evening as high school football games across the area kick off. The weekend forecast calls for sunny, hot, and dry conditions. Chances for rain return to the forecast next week, with continued signs that Labor Day weekend could have higher chances for rain.
Today in weather history... On August 27, 2020, Major Hurricane Laura made landfall in Southwest Louisiana near Camera around 1am on August 27th as a strong Category 4 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds near 150 mph, and a minimum central pressure of 938 mb. Today's daily weather history segment comes courtesy of the National Weather Service Shreveport.
Also on today's show, updates on severe weather and fires across the United States, as well as a deadly flash flood in Nepal. Additionally, our satellite imagery of the day, showing disorganized convection bubbles around newly formed Tropical Storm Dolly over the Central Atlantic Ocean, courtesy of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere.
