Cooler temperatures, possible rain forecast for High Plains through next week

After facing weeks of unwavering heat, dangerous storm systems and deadly tornadoes, the High Plains can expect to experience calmer, and cooler, weather in coming days.

Headed into the weekend, the National Weather Service offices in Lubbock and Amarillo have forecast cooler temperatures in the upper-80s in Amarillo and low-90s in Lubbock region -- up to 97 degrees in the Rolling Plains. There's also a possibility for scattered thunderstorms in the late afternoon and early evening with little to no risk of hail and tornadoes.

For the remainder of the weekend through, at least, late next week, daily temperature highs will fluctuate between the low-80s into the low-90s, maximum. Daily lows will steadily sit between the mid-60s to low-70s.

Nearly each day, there is rain potential between 30 to 50%, though that's subject to change as time passes.

On average, the mean maximum and minimum temperatures in Lubbock for the month of July are 93.4 degrees and 69 degrees, respectively, with Amarillo variating slightly cooler.

So far this year, Amarillo has received 12.59 inches of precipitation -- up by about 5.65 inches from the normal value at this time of year -- while Lubbock has received 7.37 inches, which is approximately 1.5 inches less than normal.

This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Cooler temperatures, rain expected for Texas High Plains this weekend