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Rain possible Thursday Today Is The Summer Solstice, And It Will Sure Feel Like It-But Thursday Could Bring Some Rain Showers Eric Berger 6/21/2023 7:13 AM Good morning. The Sun reaches its northernmost extent today in the sky, giving those of us in the northern hemisphere our longest daytime of the year. For today, sunrise came at 6:21 am, and sunset is not until 8:25 pm. More precisely, our day length will be 14 hours, 3 minutes, and 31 seconds. That's in contrast to our shortest day of the year, on the winter solstice in December, when the day lasts just 10 hours, 14 minutes, and 2 seconds. We're going to feel every minute of that sunshine today, with one more particularly scorching day. However, we will see a brief reprieve to end the week, with some healthy (and much needed) rain chances tomorrow. Let's discuss below. WEDNESDAY Skies will be partly to mostly sunny today, with highs again reaching near if not above 100 degrees. However, we're going to see high pressure start to retreat slightly, and this will open the door to a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Don't get too excited. We're talking about 10 percent. But those odds will improve on Thursday. Lows on Wednesday night should drop into the upper 70s. THURSDAY This will be the most interesting day of the week, weather-wise. With high pressure taking a break, we should see showers and thunderstorms developing to the northwest of our region, around the College Station area, before sunrise. Then a broken line of showers should move through during the morning hours. It's impossible to say whether you're going to see rainfall. I'd rate chances at about 50 percent, and these showers will likely be hit or miss, with a few areas seeing in excess of 1 inch, and others seeing nothing. On average chances should be better north of Interstate 10. Skies will turn partly sunny, with highs in the mid-90s. FRIDAY This will be the second of our "cool" days this week. Look for highs in the mid-90s again, with mostly sunny skies. Another round of morning showers is possible, but overall chances will be much lower, in the vicinity of 20 percent. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Sunny and hot conditions return for the weekend, with highs of 100 degrees, as the dome of high pressure builds back over Texas in a big way. NEXT WEEK Not much to say, I'm afraid, other than that the heat remains in a pretty big way. There is some hint in the models that this pattern may finally break about 10 days from now, but that's far enough into the future that my confidence in that is pretty darn low.

another long stretch of hell after tomorrow. Great...