Gardening 101: Dallas' Cool Schools initiative turns campuses into outdoor learning centers
The program transforms school grounds into more comfortable playgrounds, teaching spaces, and a community greenspace.
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Jeff joined CBS 11 and TXA 21 in December 2010. He is the senior Meteorologist on staff and can be seen covering various shifts across the week or on the weekend evenings. He also serves as one of the primary reporters for the CBS series "Climate Connection". Jeff visits area schools weekly as part of the Weather on Wheels program.
Born in Lubbock, Jeff spent most of his childhood in Tennessee. He holds a degree in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin as well as a bachelor's degree in broadcast meteorology from Mississippi State. His master's degree in science education comes from the University of Missouri.
Jeff's broadcast career spans over 35 years. Jeff and his wife Fawn (a chiropractor in Colleyville) have two sons. The oldest is serving in Alaska on the USCGC Alex Haley in the Bering Sea. The youngest is finishing up high school and plans for a career in the Coast Guard as a marine biologist.
If you would like Jeff to come talk to your group about how changing weather patterns are changing the way we garden in this area, please email him at jaray@viacomcbs.com.
The program transforms school grounds into more comfortable playgrounds, teaching spaces, and a community greenspace.
There will be a small chance of rain later Wednesday, followed by lower temperatures on Thursday.
Our FIRST ALERT WEATHER DAYS continue tomorrow into Wednesday because of this (near) record heat.
First Alert Weather Days have extended into Wednesday in anticipation of the hottest days North Texas has seen since 2018.
Most basic herbs are easy to grow and great to use in cooking, providing a quick and steady reward for work and investment.
Did you know you CAN plant tomatoes during the summer?
The low bottomed out at a mere 81 degrees this morning in DFW, making Monday the warmest start to the Fourth of July since 2009.
For the next 62 days, climatological speaking, July and August gives us the most heat stress on your garden and least amount of water.
It's been an especially hot and dry start to summer, but do you know where we are headed on the calendar? Into the hottest, driest run of 62 days on average in our climate year.
Today marks the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice.
Here in the heat of the North Texas summer it's time to find some shade, so let's talk about what can grow there.
The outlooks for the next week and the week beyond call for good chances of below-normal rainfall for North Texas.
The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for most of North Texas, in effect from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
We are forecasting 100° days across the weekend, with the heat index topping out over 105°F both days. Please take heat precautions!
To garden in north Texas requires you protect your valuable landscape in the summer heat.