Well, turns out Mother Nature has a sense of humor. After spending the last 72 hours talking about how beautiful the weather will be all week long and into next weekend…

I get a curveball.

And this is a nasty sliding-out-of-the-strike-zone pitch that leaves me swinging, missing and screwing myself into the ground.

Wow.

The 06z GFS computer weather model decided – to quote Todd Mansfield, “all the sudden!” – to deliver some different numbers for Saturday across the Texas panhandle.

Highs projected to be in the 40s. Yes. Forties.

Widely scattered rain showers, most light, will dot the landscape with breezes from the north at 15 to 25mph.

We’ll see if this hold true. Like always, I’ll be watching it closely.

Looks like the 18z NAM computer weather model is showing some bias toward a more organized severe weather event for Friday.

As it looks right now, it has the dryline set up from Dalhart to Friona with storms starting to fire – like mentioned earlier – between 3pm and 5pm. Now it is suggesting CAPE values in the 400 to 1,000 range with bulk shear still looking like 40kts and higher. It also shows dewpoints in the 50s and temperatures in the 60s.

Very interesting…