The shower and thunderstorm activity is forecast to begin after 1 p.m. Wednesday in the San Angelo area with a 50% chance of coverage. Thursday will be cloudy with another chance of afternoon showers with rain chances at 40% after 1 p.m.
There is a 30% to 50% chance of widespread moderate rain primarily in the afternoon hours Wednesday and Thursday and a slight chance Tuesday and Friday afternoon. Temperatures will also moderate to the lower to mid 90s beginning Wednesday.
These zones would enhance efforts to monitor and contain CWD in portions of Bandera, Duval, Jim Wells, Kimble, Live Oak, McMullen, Medina and Uvalde counties ahead of the upcoming hunting season.
San Angelo will have had 70 days in 2022 where the temperature reached or exceeded 100 degrees counting Saturday. The record is 100 days set back in the extreme drought year of 2011.
Most of West Texas remains under a Heat Advisory through Thursday evening as temperatures once again soar near 105 degrees but there could be a respite on the way.
So far in 2022 there have been 62 days where the mercury has reached or exceeded 100 degrees and the forecast calls for triple digit temps for at least the next ten days.
San Angelo and West Texas are in the grips of a significant drought. Reservoirs, lakes, ponds, tanks, rivers and streams are drying up as a lack of rainfall to replenish water supplies combines with high temperatures, low humidity and constant winds to cause major evaporation.
The National Weather Service office in San Angelo issued a Heat Advisory for part of the Big Country just north of San Angelo where the high temperature in Abilene is forecast at 102 degrees; San Angelo avoided that Heat Advisory for Monday afternoon with a forecast high of 101.
The nearby Permian Period tracks are unique and uncommon, occurring in only a few places around the world. These tracks were made 90 million years before the dinosaurs!