Bob Peters Forecast

A couple of showers crossed Red River into extreme Northeast Texas Sunday, while otherwise the region was warm and dry. The showers formed along an outflow boundary from an earlier thunderstorm complex in Oklahoma. The showers affected northern parts of Fannin and Lamar Counties.

There is a chance for more showers in the region later this week most likely Thursday afternoon and again Friday afternoon. Beyond that, there may be another chance around the 13th.

The upper air high pressure ridge continued in place Sunday from north Mexico into the southern United States. This resulted in descending air, which warms as it moves downward through the at-mosphere. Skies were fair over-night, cloudy over the southern counties around dawn, and partly cloudy otherwise as cumulus clouds formed Sunday afternoon.

Winds were southerly at 5-10 mph overnight, and increased to 10-15 mph with occasionally higher gusts during the day. Wind velocities should increase through mid-week. This is because of a new upper air storm system which will be taking shape over the western United States. That will cause surface low pressure to deepen along the western edge of the Great Plains, which will increase wind velocities in East Texas.

Sunday’s temperatures ran a couple of degrees above Satur-day’s, and were about 5 degrees above normal. Temperatures Mon-day through Wednesday should be similar to slightly higher. Low readings Sunday were from near 70 to the middle 70s, and were up to 5 degrees higher than Saturday’s because of higher relative humidity overnight and a slight strengthening in the upper air ridge.