SAN ANGELO – Most of the Concho Valley saw some much needed rainfall Wednesday night as thunderstorms blew through the area with high winds and heavy rain.
According to the National Weather Service office in San Angelo, .16 of an inch of rain fell last night at the airport while areas generally to the northwest saw higher amounts.
The showers have moved east of the area as of Thursday morning and any additional rainfall in unlikely. Forecasters have left a slight chance of rain in the forecast as a line of storms will develop in eastern New Mexico and the Permian Basin Thursday evening and move east but there is only a slight chance those storms will hold together long enough to reach the Concho Valley.
Sizzling hot temperatures up close to 110 degrees will bake the area beginning Monday as the drought intensifies early this year. Mathis field has recorded only 2.77 inches of rain this year which is 5.45 inches below normal.
Drought patterns in the past indicate that the summer of 2022 will be hot and dry. Very little significant rainfall appears in the summer forecast and that string of 100+ degree days will extend well into September. Lake levels could begin to drop significantly because of evaporation and officials will begin watching the San Angelo municipal water supply measured in months of water remaining.
This is a developing and dynamic weather situation.
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