Although an upper-low moving across the northern Gulf of Mexico will enhance shower activity today and tomorrow, the overall trend for the next five days seems towards a period of hot, dry weather. By Friday, high pressure is expected to build into the area. This will suppress shower acitivity and raise temperatures a few degrees through the middle of this coming week. Fortunately, the Climate Prediction Center's outlook for our area past mid-week is a little more upbeat now with slightly higher than normal rainfall projected for the period from the 15th-19th, but with a trend back to drier than normal conditions after the 19th. Naturally, such forecasts are always a little risky because long-term weather projections are less accurate than short-term ones (see chart below-courtesy of NOAA-Climate Prediction Center):