Monday Starts Wet in San Antonio: Flood Watch Through the Morning, Rain at 87 Percent, High of Only 62
San Antonio is under a flood watch through Monday morning after a saturated South Texas weekend, and the station's live feed scores Monday as a rain day — 59.8 degrees overnight, a high of just 62.2, and an 87 percent precipitation chance — before Tuesday's drizzle eases and Wednesday warms back to 76.
The work week opens the way the weekend ran: wet. The station's live weather feed — the twanews.com weather endpoint, read directly this run in the overnight hours — showed San Antonio at 59.8 degrees, feeling like 59.2, under an overcast sky, with Monday's full line scored at rain (weather code 63), a high of only 62.2, a low of 58.4 and a precipitation probability of 87 percent. It is the third straight rain day on the desk's board, and Monday is a school-and-commute morning, not a weekend one.
The rain carries a warning with it. A flood watch remained in effect for South Texas through Monday morning — San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Laredo, Brownsville and Kerrville among the cities under it — after multiple days of rain saturated the ground, according to Sunday's ABC News reporting carried by KBNW. Widespread totals of 2 to 5 inches were considered likely across the watch area, with slower-moving and training storms capable of producing 7 to 9 inches in places; some areas east of Laredo toward Kingsville had already taken more than 5 inches since Sunday morning, and rainfall rates could reach 1 to 2 inches per hour at times under a level 2 of 4 flash-flood threat. On Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to bolster the state's response. "The State of Texas is prepared to respond to the threat of heavy rainfall and flash floods across South and West Texas," Abbott said in the statement carried in that reporting, urging Texans to "remain weather-aware, monitor local forecasts, avoid flooded roadways, and heed guidance from state and local officials."
The turn comes quickly once Monday is through. Tuesday eases to drizzle (code 51) with a high of 67.1, a low of 61.2 and the rain chance down to 24 percent. Wednesday runs overcast and dry at 75.9 with a 7 percent chance — the Veterans Day holiday lands on the warm, dry turn, as the desk has carried since Sunday — Thursday holds overcast at 76.4 with the chance at zero, Friday clears completely (code 0) at 69.9, Saturday sits overcast at 69.4 with a 10 percent chance, and next Sunday brings showers back at 64.8 with the chance at 37 percent. The desk's overnight bottom line: Monday is a rain-gear, leave-early morning under a flood watch; the rest of the week is not.
