7/29: Isolated t-storms this afternoon, check of Wednesday's rain totals

updated 2:50 p.m.

There's a decent cumulus field across much of the South Plains. A few isolated thunderstorms will be possible through the afternoon, diminishing with the cooling of the evening. These are small storms, not covering much land. They'll drift north, at times producing some brief heavy downpours. Many spots will stay dry.



One storms is developing now over northern Briscoe County:



A few other returns now from about Amherst to west of Earth:



With the isolated nature you'll be lucky to get rain, most won't. Maybe we'll get one storm right over the airport. 0.07" of rain is needed to make this the wettest July in Lubbock of about the past century.

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posted 6:50 a.m.
Partly cloudy to mostly sunny today, high in Lubbock near 88. Wind from the S-SE 5-15mph. There's just a 10 percent thunderstorm chance today. The better chance for rain and thunderstorms lies to our west, across New Mexico.

Forecast high:

Plainview 87
Levelland 88
Ralls 89
Hobbs 87, few more clouds
Snyder 89
Paducah 92



The weekend features more sunshine, high in the mid- to upper-90s. Saturday should be the one day of July where the afternoon high is above the seasonal average; we haven't seen this all month in Lubbock. This follows the scorching hot start to June then the drenching beginning to July.

There may be a few thunderstorms that form on Saturday but that chance isn't very impressive, so it's not in the seven-day forecast. We're looking at these very subtle day-to-day changes because the broad picture is this -- hot and mostly sunny through next week.

Rain totals Thursday

Rain early in the morning then scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms brought some isolated heavy downpours, especially early in the morning. Lubbock received just a trace of rain at the airport. We're still 0.07" away from the all-time wettest July mark.

Here are numbers from the TTU Mesonet:

Plainview 1.81"
Tulia 1.60"
Paducah 1.03"
Jayton 1.19"
Graham 1.24"

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Regional outlook

It's rain to the west, sun to the east. The departing upper-level low is creeping into West Texas. We'll see a few seabreeze showers or storms but more of Texas will be dry, highs in the 90s.



There isn't much of a severe threat across the United States today. It'll mainly be thunderstorms that pop up in the heating of the afternoon.



Tropics

Still not much ongoing across the tropics



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