Stan Blazyk

By 1 p.m. today, the temperature had soared under sunny skies to 93 degrees at Scholes International Airport in Galveston with a heat index of 114 degrees and 96-97 degrees in the Friendswood and League City areas.

A surge of tropical moisture, an upper-level low and unsettled weather in the Gulf of Mexico will continue to provide a good chance of showers and thunderstorms over the coming week or two.

The 5.60 inches of rain measured Monday at Scholes International Airport set a new daily record for Sept. 2,, eclipsing the 4.64 inches of rain observed in 1941.

While there is a 90 percent chance for tropical depression or tropical storm development over the next day or so, many factors will determine when and how any storm impacts Galveston County and the Upper-Texas Gulf Coast.

At 10 a.m., the National Hurricane Center issued advisories for newly designated Tropical Storm Francine.

At 4 p.m., the National Hurricane Center noted Tropical Storm Francine was becoming better organized and was expected to make landfall on the Louisiana coast Wednesday afternoon between Cameron and Marsh Island.

Tropical Storm Francine expected to become hurricane today as it heads for landfall on the central Louisiana coast.

UPDATE: 10:30 a.m. Tropical Storm Francine making move towards the northeast, Warnings extended eastward.

At its 4 p.m. advisory, the National Hurricane Center canceled the Tropical Storm Watch for most of the upper-Texas coast including the Galveston area.

Those of us who got spoiled by our brief spell of cooler weather for the first third of this month can be forgiven for wishing that the current spell of warm to hot, dry weather would go away.