Weather

Brownfield Ag Weather Today

Hurricane Rafael is forecast to cross western Cuba and enter the Gulf of Mexico later Wednesday.  However, Rafael does not pose an immediate threat to the U.S. Gulf Coast due to a variety of factors, including steering currents that should cause the hurricane to veer westward after traversing Cuba, as well as increasingly hostile dry-air entrainment and wind shear.  Farther west, the storm system currently affecting central sections of the Rockies and High Plains will drift northeastward, reaching the upper Great Lakes region by Sunday.  Storm-total precipitation should reach 1 to 3 inches across the central and southern Plains and adjacent Rockies.  Showers and locally severe thunderstorms should form along the storm’s trailing cold front, extending as far east as the Mississippi Valley.  Elsewhere, chilly conditions will persist in the western U.S., with rain and snow returning late in the week across the Northwest.