Dry today, but more rain expected for the next few days
The sun will probably come out today, but come Sunday it will be a different story.
As the Rio Grande Valley attempts to dry out from more than a week’s worth of rain, more rain is in the forecast for at least Sunday and Monday.
A high-pressure area will move through today, decreasing the chance of rain, said Maria Torres, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Brownsville.
The clear skies won’t last long. Chances of rain increase to 40 percent tonight and chances of showers or thunderstorms is 70 percent for Sunday and Sunday night.
The forecast for Monday includes a 40 percent chance of showers of thunderstorms.
As of Wednesday, the official rain figure for Brownsville stood at 2.71 inches for the month so far, and parts of the city had gotten over 3 inches.
Only eight days into the month, Brownsville, Harlingen and McAllen have each gotten way more than the long-term monthly average for February.
Brownsville’s figure of 2.71 inches as of Wednesday compares with the average February rainfall — since 1878 — of 1.22 inches.
Harlingen’s 2.85 inches as of Wednesday compares with the long-term February average of 1.22 inches, calculated since 1911.
And McAllen’s 1.88 inches through Wednesday compares with the February figure of 1.05, averaged since 1961.
Although this week’s rain has been consistent, it still have not been enough to change the area’s drought designations assigned by the Texas Drought Monitor. As of Feb. 7, Cameron and most of Hidalgo and Willacy counties were still under the “exceptional drought” status. Starr County is under the “extreme drought” designation.
