Due to some flipflops in the models the forecast for our weekend is much better than it seemed earlier this week. The system in the Gulf of Mexico is being shoved westward and will now enter the U.S. mainland via the Mississippi River valley instead of sneaking up the East Coast to bother us. The combination of the jet stream retreat to the Canadian border - more normal for July than for May - and the cutoff of Gulf moisture by the aforementioned system has given us a short reprieve from soggy weather. Never fear, however, as on Monday some of that same moisture will invade our turf and provide several days of showery weather until a cold front plows through on Thursday.

After that one of the models indicates formation of a tropical system just off the Texas coast by next Saturday (5/30) which would stream its way eastward along the Gulf coast states over the succeeding days. Keep in mind such long range forecasts are pretty unreliable...but hurricane season officially starts June 1st.