Cool in the Wake of the Rain

The rain has left the metro area. A brisk north wind and cloudy skies (the clouds will break some this afternoon) will make for the coldest day since last April with highs only in the mid-60's:

A band of moderate to brief heavy rain set-up from southern Hill Co. over to Van Zandt county this morning. These are same areas hit hard by the heavy rains over the last three days. Flash Flood Warnings continue into the afternoon:

Corsicana logged 20.93" of rain since Thursday. In an average year they get 39.12" of year so that's more than half of a year's rain in 4 days. The rain should finally leave the area by late today.

The low pressure system that flooded Houston overnight is crawling up the Texas coastline toward Louisiana over the next 24 hours. It will take the rain east of us where flooding is expected over a large swath of Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama coastline.

What a rain it has been for north Texas. Just look at the numbers from DFW. Friday (3.55") was the biggest one-day rain in five years. The three-day total is the biggest since 1991:

We have about four dry days for the rivers to go back down. Another big rain is possible next weekend as a powerful upper-level low swings in from the Pacific west:

Just like this last big rain even the upper-low draws Pacific moisture from the southwest (mid-levels of the atmosphere) and Gulf moisture (low-levels of the atmosphere) into north Texas. The rain should start Friday and continue into the weekend including Halloween night:

We'll keep you posted. This could produce another round of flooding. As it stands right now 2015 is on pace to be the wettest year ever recorded here:

Enjoy the fine Fall days that are ahead for us this work week. Nice to have the cool weather sticking around again: