Dry Weather To Continue Early Next Week
An unusually dry air mass for mid-summer permitted comfortable morning low temperatures and quite warm afternoon readings with low relative humidities.
The dry air will likely remain in place through the weekend and into early next week, with little change in the current weather pattern. Skies were fair overnight, and became partly cloudy during the afternoon with some fair-weather cumulus.
Thursday’s temperatures ran near Wednesday’s, and were near normal. Similar temperatures are forecast Friday through Sunday. Morning low readings were near to slightly below Wednesday’s, running from the middle 60s in the north and east to the middle 70s in the west.
Low readings Friday through Sunday mornings should be similar, with perhaps a slight warming over the east. Afternoon high readings were from the lower 90s in the north to near 100 in the southeast. These were a degree or so higher than on Wednesday.
High readings Friday through Sunday should run in the 90s, with slight warming over the north.
Measurable rain fell nowhere in the area Thursday. The nearest rain to Tyler was about 275 miles northwest over Southwest Oklahoma before dawn.
Winds on Thursday were light and variable to near calm. A light southeast to south wind is forecast through the weekend.
Tyler’s highest sustaining wind Thursday was northerly at 10 mph with a peak gust of 13 mph and an average velocity of 4.5 mph. Wednesday’s average wind velocity was 6.1 mph.
Thursday’s average relative humidity was an unusually low 51 percent, with similar to slightly higher values likely through Sunday. Wednesday’s average was 57 percent. Tyler’s high temperature of 97 came at 4:08 p.m., following the day’s low of 71 at 6:44 a.m.
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