08/26 Ryan’s “Driest” Monday Morning Forecast

Today should be the driest day of the week ahead of the return of afternoon showers.

I expect today will be our driest day in terms of rain, but the humidity is noticeably climbing from its lowered values we saw last week. It’s not going to bounce back to those ridiculous levels we saw a couple of weeks ago, but it will inch back up into the mid-to-upper 70s by the middle of the week. Thankfully the temperature falls a couple of degrees around that time to keep the heat index from returning to dangerous heat levels, but that will be due to increasing rain chances, so we’ll see a bit less sun as a trade-off.

Today will see a good bit of sun to start with, then the heat of the afternoon will bring a bit of cloud cover, expecting up to 50% clouds-to-sun (partly sunny) at its peak. It’s not impossible a few sprinkles fall this afternoon, but I don’t expect we’ll see rain you can really count on until Wednesday morning/afternoon, thanks to a small-scale low passing through. Even that will be largely supported by heating, so it’ll still be inconsistent, especially from Thursday-Sunday.