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Triple-digit heat returns to North Texas amid relatively mild summer

Thursday marked our 7th triple-digit day of the year at DFW. We average 20 in a year, so we are still well below that. But it was a very warm afternoon across North Texas.

Fortunately, dew points are low, so we aren't dealing with a heat index.

As we head into Friday, clouds will be on the increase. Expect mainly cloudy skies by the afternoon. Because of that increase in clouds, temperatures will be just a couple of degrees lower than on Thursday.

Those clouds are building thanks to tropical moisture in the Eastern Pacific moving eastward. On top of that, we have a cold front on the way.

The combination of the two will bring us scattered rain chances starting Friday evening and heading into the weekend.

The weekend will not be a washout. The bulk of our rain on Saturday looks to fall during the first half of the day, with just very scattered shower chances lingering into Sunday.

That all starts to clear up by the first of next week, and by that point, we start to heat back up.  

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