Dave Speelman

The Borderland will remain hot today, but temperatures will be a few degrees cooler compared to Tuesday as the upper-level high shifts slightly west.

The Borderland will continue its stretch of above-average temperatures Friday as a stubborn upper-level high remains parked over western New Mexico. Lowland temperatures will once again flirt with the triple digits, with afternoon highs generally ranging from 96 to 102 degrees. That is roughly 5 to 8 degrees above normal for the end of August.

The Borderland will stay warm and mostly dry through the middle of the week, but moisture is gradually increasing across the region, bringing better chances for thunderstorms—especially toward Thursday.

High pressure and drier air will limit storm development tonight. Isolated showers and thunderstorms will be possible mainly across the New Mexico Bootheel, Hudspeth County and the Sacramento Mountains.

Another surge of monsoonal moisture will move into the Borderland, bringing an increase in shower and thunderstorm chances through the weekend.

That means storms could produce very heavy rainfall in a short amount of time. Some locations could pick up more than an inch of rain, and isolated

El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley will stay mostly dry tonight as a strong ridge of high pressure continues to dominate the region.

Hot and mostly dry conditions will continue across the Borderland today, with temperatures running several degrees above average.

Storm chances are increasing across the Borderland as a passing disturbance helps reshape the weather pattern across the area. Storm chances increase tonight

The Borderland is heading into a warmer and mostly drier weather pattern over the next few days as high pressure builds across the Desert Southwest.