There is a high chance of thunderstorms in the forecast for today and tomorrow, according to the National Weather Service out of Mobile.

NWS Meteorologist Ryan Rogers said the outlook indicates that there is a 70 percent chance of thunderstorms in the forecast through Friday.

“There’s a fairly good chance tomorrow and Thursday,” Rogers said. “As we get toward Friday, it comes down to 30 percent.”

Rogers said the percentages increase by 10 starting at 20 on Saturday. There will be a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms on Monday.

Over the course of the last two days, Rogers said there wasn’t anything too severe that swept through the Covington County area.

“We didn’t have any severe thunderstorms,” he said. “We obviously had tons of lightning.”

Rogers said people reported several power outages, there were some fires and a kid at school was electrocuted a little after lightning struck the school.

“Just because it doesn’t mean 58 mile-per-hour winds and no hail, that doesn’t mean it isn’t severe,” Rogers said.

Rogers said the thunderstorms today and tomorrow could be feisty.

“That’s par for the course for the Gulf Coast in late spring and early summer,” he said.

Rogers said this is the time of year where thunderstorms aren’t going to be formed as organized lines, adding that more pop up storms will form.

As far as the summer outlook, Rogers said one of the student volunteers at the NWS who goes to the University of South Alabama, indicated that he already had 45 inches of rain fall at his house this year.

“He’s well on his way to have the yearly total (70-80 inches),” Rogers said. “We’ve had a wet year.

“As far as the rest of the year, we do have a developing El Niño, which means wetter averages to the Gulf Coast areas,” he said. “This time of year is when we make predictions on how far or how warm El Niño eventually gets. If those develop, then that will lead to wetter months.”