Still looking good for late-week showers and thunderstorms

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Today and tomorrow will be dry and hot with highs in many areas topping out in the upper 90s to around 102°. Maximum heat index values this afternoon will reach as high as 103°. Austin is sitting at 64 days with those highs in triple digits.It's Thursday and Friday that will be our "best" days of the week for it is the end of the week where rain chances go up to 50%. The ridge of high pressure that has dominated since May will be retreating to the northwest from the Texa