June rolls in with heat and scattered thunderstorms
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – We opened the weekend with fantastic sunny and dry weather on Saturday. Sunday will bring a slight chance of thunderstorms, and the scattered storms will return during a hot and humid first week of June.
We will enjoy one more night of cool temperatures in the low 60s Saturday night into Sunday morning. We will be clear through midnight, but scattered storms will be moving across Oklahoma overnight, arriving on the doorstep of the I-30 corridor by sunrise. Severe weather is unlikely, but a few rain showers may hold together as far south as northeast Texas.
Most of Sunday will be dry for the rest of the ArkLaTex, with an increase in clouds leaving us partly to mostly cloudy throughout the day. High temperatures will be in the mid to upper 80s, with some mugginess returning with the arrival of rain. A few isolated thunderstorms are possible anywhere Sunday afternoon, especially in east Texas.
Monday and Tuesday will likely be dry with temperatures rising into the low 90s, where highs will stay for most of the week. A slight chance of rain and thunderstorms will return midweek as a front passes north of the region. This front will approach later in the week, bringing a slightly higher chance of scattered storms Thursday through Saturday. Rainfall will average around 1 to 1.5 inches in Arkansas and Oklahoma over the next 7 days, tapering to a half inch or less further south into Texas and Louisiana.
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