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Friday & the weekend: A quiet Friday, then turning unsettled again

/ May 7, 2026 at 10:05 PM

We’re back in the saddle here at @chswx HQ and looking at a quiet Friday before conditions turn unsettled once again this weekend as the front that’s helped to bring us today’s rain starts to wobble back northward.

But first, the front does get south of us overnight Thursday, bringing us a quiet Friday with some peeks of sun. Lows around 60° warm into the upper 70s in the afternoon with cloud cover thickening as the day goes on. Surface dewpoints bottom out in the low 50s during the height of the afternoon, so it’ll be a comfortable warmth on Friday.

The quiet doesn’t last, though. As mentioned, the front to the south begins to wobble back northward, and disturbances riding along that front will begin to bring rain back into the picture by Saturday morning. We’ll keep showers and the occasional thunderstorm in the forecast heading into Mother’s Day, too, as another front starts to advance on the area with a continued conga line of disturbances aloft. It won’t rain all the time, but you’ll want to make sure your indoor plans are fairly robust this weekend. Temperatures will run around normal; expect upper 70s to around 80° on Saturday and low 80s on Sunday.


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