Rain Skirts Around San Angelo During Continuing Drought Weather Pattern

SAN ANGELO – The thunderstorm system that blew through the Concho Valley Sunday brought much needed rain to areas around the city of San Angelo but left the city mostly high and dry which is typical during drought conditions.  

The storm system which prompted meteorologists to issue a 40% chance of rain for Monday has moved south of San Angelo and is dumping rain along the I-10 corridor between Sonora and Junction.

Weather models showed the weekend storm system capable of dumping up to three inches of rain areawide, but that didn't happen.  Radar images from Sunday show the line of thunderstorms developing west of San Angelo and splitting and going around the city which has been documented time and time again during periods of drought.  

This morning, National Weather Service meteorologists put it this way, "Considerable uncertainty continues on exactly how much activity we will see and how far north these showers and thunderstorms will develop.  At this point, the best rain chance looks to remain south of a San Angelo to Brownwood line, with rain chances decreasing as you go north."

That means that basically that 40% chance of rain Monday covers the southern counties of the Concho Valley and does not include Tom Green County and the city of San Angelo.

There is not another chance of measurable precipitation in the forecast for the next ten days.