First Big Storms of Spring Ahead

Get out and enjoy the this first weekend of (meteorological) Spring. Wonderful weather today, more clouds and windy tomorrow . Both days above normal temperatures and dry. If outside mowing that lawn for the first time of the year beware of high pollen counts. A warm winter and early start to the warm season will mean high counts and a longer allergy season:

On Sunday please take care with outside or driving in a high-profile vehicle: we'll have very strong winds by afternoon that will stay strong late into the night:

South winds over the weekend means the dry air in place today will become very humid by Monday. A dry line to the west of north Texas will approach on Monday and help trigger powerful storms by afternoon:

A major shift in the weather pattern will provide the first heavy rain and severe weather event of the Spring season. Currently it sits offshore of Washington state. Pieces of energy from this powerful upper-level low will bring waves of rain and storms. The wet weather could last all the way into the start of next weekend!

Here is how the rain chances look in the week ahead:

What I want you to know about this event is the threat of severe weather. It will be west of the Metro on Monday with the possibility of isolated Tornadoes and big hail. The threat moves over the rest of north Texas on Tuesday. We could avoid the worst of it on Tuesday with heavy rain is in place Tuesday morning. This will limit the warm-up and severe potential:

There is a high probability of VERY heavy rain and the threat of flash flooding. The heaviest rain will be Tuesday into Wednesday morning. Another round will arrive on late Thursday and Friday. The rainfall potential is staggering: we could have some areas get 5"-6" of rain between Monday and Friday.

Right now it looks like a dry weekend for the return to daylight saving time: