Bob Peters Forecast

A weakening line of showers and thunderstorms moved into the area from the northwest early Friday, and showers re-developed over the northeast and southeast Friday afternoon. The line reached Tyler shortly before 8 a.m. The city picked up 0.06 inch, while Pounds Field measured 0.14 inch.

More than two inches of rain fell over parts of Van Zandt County as the line was beginning to weaken. The Van Zandt County thunderstorms briefly reached severe limits, with a warning displayed for parts of it, Rains, and Kaufman counties around 5 a.m. The line weakened as it outran an upper air disturbance, which was its original energy source.

Later in the day, showers formed beneath the remnant of the upper air disturbance, which was centered near Paris at 4 p.m. The showers were generally north of Interstate-30.

Meanwhile, a weak cold front was moving through the region. Showers formed at mid-afternoon ahead of this boundary over the East Texas Lakes.

The front along with clouds and showers held down temperatures, which ran 5 degrees below normal. Similar below normal temperatures are likely well into next week.

Low temperatures Friday morning were from the high 60s where the heavier thunderstorms occurred to the middle 70s in the south. Low readings should be similar each morning through Monday.

Afternoon high readings were from near 80 in the north to the middle 90s in the south.

High readings through Monday should run from the middle 80s to near 90. Skies were cloudy overnight and Friday morning, and became partly to mostly cloudy during the afternoon. Winds were light and southerly overnight, gusted to near 30 mph as the thunderstorm line approached, and became light and northeasterly Friday afternoon.

Light easterly to northeasterly winds should continue through the weekend. Tyler's highest sustaining wind Friday was northeasterly at 20 mph with a peak gust of 25 mph, and an average velocity of 7.0 mph. Thursday's average wind velocity was 3.8 mph.

Friday's average relative humidity was 75 percent, with slightly lower values likely Saturday and Sunday. Thursday's average was 63 percent.

Tyler's high temperature of 87 came at 5:12 p.m., following the morning's low of 71 at 9:52 a.m. The overnight minimum was 76.