DFW Weather: The heat has returned heading into the weekend

Published: Aug 22, 2024 Duration: 00:03:37 Category: News & Politics

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Because today, yikes, I mean, di just walking from my car into the building was a struggle. I mean, it's, there's an excessive heat warning in place. Uh, the heat index is up to 100 and 15 today. Now, the hottest temperatures will be along our western counties where air is drier. The big difference between today and yesterday is that rise in humidity. We have a southerly wind that's back in place and that's really, it's ramping up the humidity. That's why it feels quite a bit more uncomfortable today than it did yesterday. Your weekend forecast showing a high of 100 on Saturday, 98 on Sunday morning, lows in the upper seventies, mostly dry sunshine, just humid, 94 degrees right now at DB U, but it already feels like the triple digits before noon. Thanks to the humidity that I've been talking about clear skies overhead for the metroplex. But along our far eastern counties along east Texas, going into southeast Texas, you see a little bit of shower and thunderstorm activity. That's where temperatures will stay in the mid to low nineties elsewhere. We're talking about upper nineties for East Texas triple digits for DFW and close to 100 and 10 for some spots in western North Texas. We saw similar numbers yesterday, but again, today, it's more dangerous because of that high humidity. Our heat index expected to be about 100 and 10 for DFW. But again, some of our western counties could have a heat index up to 100 and 15. So those temperatures will hover around 100 degrees through the weekend and into early parts of next week. But look at Wednesday, you start to see that number go down just a tad, not by much, the heat index will still be in the triple digits. That's about the time when I'm expecting this ridge of high pressure to really start to weaken some. So right now that richly pressure, what we call the heat dome is going to hold steady over North Texas. Eventually, it does shift towards the east. And when that happens, it allows this window of opportunity for rain to return to the area. It's not going to be a lot. Uh but it does look like between now and next Wednesday. So really only taken into consideration Tuesday and Wednesday, we could pick up less than a quarter of an inch of rain and it may be even close to an inch in some spots across Southeast Texas and B. Do we need the rain this month? So far, we've only picked up 0.35 inches of rainfall. August is generally one of our drier months, but we're still below normal by over an inch this summer, only 6.5 inches, which is still technically in a rain deficit. But for the year when you look at that wet spring that we've had, we've picked up over 31.5 inches rainfall and that really did help us be in a surplus for the year. But again, most of that fell in the spring and early summer, not so much late summer, which is why, unfortunately, we have drought back in the area right now. We have moderate drought along our western counties areas in Tarrant, Dallas, even across the Red River. And we started the summer off drought lists. So seeing this kind of sneak back into the area is really one of those reasons why we have a lot of bird bands in place. In fact, this is probably the worst drought we've had since mid December, which again, it's not horrible. It's not as bad as it was last August, but still something to be watching. The good news is that rain is in the forecast as early as Tuesday. It's not for everyone, but we could see some decent rain chances middle part of the week, going towards the end of the week and even Labor Day weekend. And that brings our highs down into the mid nineties, which I mean for late August, early September is certainly a welcome site to you know, I can't complain about that. Mariel, the curtain draws on SM US foot.

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