by Steve Norris, Smith County Weather Correspondent
We enjoyed some beautiful days during the early and middle part of the week, but now the heat and humidity is increasing, thunderstorms will become likely, and some of those will produce heavy downpours and frequent lightning. It looks like we are going into a very unsettled weather pattern with showers and thunderstorms possible every day for the next one to two weeks. Outside of the thunderstorms it will be partly cloudy with high temperatures in the mid-90s and the heat index well above 100 degrees!
We need more rain gauges across our county and surrounding counties because rainfall can vary considerably from community to community. If you would be interested in keeping a daily tab on your rainfall and reporting it to the Weather Service, go to Cocorahs.org to get all of the information on how to sign up. You only have to take one observation in the morning and then go online and put down the rainfall recorded during the past 24 hours. I am a daily contributor, and this weather info can be very valuable to the Weather Service and it is lots of fun to compare rainfall totals to the surrounding counties.
If you have any weather questions or have any weather data to share with me, my email is weather1@charter.net.
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