Frank's Weather or Not: A spring break stormy start?

Now that our cold snap is behind us, and the groundhog forecast for an early spring is back on track, my focus is on the storm season. As you know, Lee County, Alabama, where Auburn University is located, had a terrible tornado outbreak last Sunday. Another strong system is slated for the country this weekend. Here's the Saturday FV3 output:

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For us, showers are a good bet but this Saturday system looks to be weakening as it moves into Texas and less than 1/2" of rain is expected. We may see a scattered thunderstorm, but that should be it. Before it gets here, sea fog will return Friday night! And while this next one is an early forecast, next Tuesday night into Wednesday might spring a leak as well. Here's that model and it looks more potent for SE Texas:

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Don't forget to "Spring Forward" this weekend as we return to Daylight Saving Time (yes, saving, not savings). Benjamin Franklin first suggested this idea as a joke to save thousands of pounds of wax. Move the waking hours up a bit to take advantage of more daylight and you wouldn't need to burn as many candles. The method actually caught on during WWI and WWII to give munitions workers more daylight in the factories and it then became permanent in 1966 with lots of changes since then. In 2007, the timing went from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November. Not for Arizona or Hawaii though and here are more fun facts from Reader's Digest about DST!

I'll miss that extra hour this weekend and won't be blogging Friday! We are heading to Dripping Springs for a wedding! I've never been to Ma Maison and the setting looks amazing!

Congrats to our friends, Shawn and Mike! Have a safe upcoming Spring Break, wherever you are headed!

Frank


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KPRC 2's chief meteorologist with four decades of experience forecasting Houston's weather.