20% to 30% chance of thunderstorms<\/a> during the afternoon and early evening. A few tropical downpours are possible, but most areas will not pick up significant rainfall.<\/p>\nTemperatures will stay warm, but afternoon highs are likely to be a few degrees cooler than the past few days because of increased cloudiness. Expect temps to top out between 91 and 93 degrees, but with \u201cfeels like\u201d temperatures near 100 degrees as humidity levels rise.<\/p>\n
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Shown are the expected heat index values, or humidity-driven \u201cfeels like\u201d temperatures,\u00a0 across South Texas for late Friday afternoon<\/p>\n
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Increasing chances Saturday<\/p>\n
Tropical moisture levels will keep rising on Saturday, which will allow for scattered showers and storms to increase in coverage across South-Central Texas. San Antonio’s overall rain chances will be near 40%. A few isolated tropical downpours could bring rainfall rates of 2 inches per hour or faster.<\/p>\n
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Even with the higher rain chances, humidity-boosted heat will persist. Saturday temperatures will top out in the lower 90s, with expected heat index values likely in the triple digits.<\/p>\n
By Sunday, rain chances will decrease across the region, but a 20% chance of a lingering shower or storm is still expected. If you plan on spending time outdoors, be sure to stay hydrated, as typical summertime heat will also continue.<\/p>\n
Rain chances continue early next week<\/p>\n
By Monday and Tuesday of next week, high atmospheric pressure is expected to build across the middle of the country. However, the center of the high pressure will be displaced well north of Texas, allowing for tropical moisture to continue pushing into the region.<\/p>\n
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San Antonio will see rain chances rise again to around 30% on Monday, pushing even higher to a 50% chance of storms on Tuesday. Lower temperatures will accompany the higher rain chances, as highs may stay in the upper 80s on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Because storms are not expected to be widespread, total rainfall over the next five days is expected to stay relatively low. According to the National Blend of Models, between a half-inch to an inch of rain is likely for the San Antonio metro area through Tuesday, with slightly higher totals expected across parts of Kendall, Medina and\u00a0Bandera counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shown are the potential rainfall totals across South Texas through Tuesday, according to the National Blend of Models.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-368058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}