July Stuck in Same Pattern
Below is the five day forecast for total rainfall across the United States:
Notice the effect of the dome of High pressure parked over Texas I added to the graphic. Along the circulation clockwise of the High is ample rain and cooler temperatures. Under the dome it is hot and dry.
Highs today again reached into the triple digit numbers this afternoon. DFW topped out right at 100° as of 5pm. A few storms could fire up early evening in the south, southwest edge of north Texas (Breckenridge, Stephenville down to Waco). This is from an upper-level low that is moving into west Texas from the Gulf of Mexico. It has brought some rain into San Antonio and parts of the Hill country. As this low swings up toward the panhandle tomorrow it'll increase rain/storm chances for the parched areas of western Texas. It is forecast to loop over Oklahoma and head east, on Tuesday the Red River counties will see a small chance of rain because of it.
I mention all this because in large part there is very little else to describe about the weather ahead that you haven't heard before. In brief the story remains so much the same: triple digit highs and very small chances of afternoon storms. Overnight lows will only drop down to the low 80's; each morning we'll get within a degree or two of tying or breaking a record maximum low. Highs should top out around 100-104 each day around our area.
It is expected that daily rains over in the deep south will spread west into east Texas by Friday and next weekend. On Saturday I have posted a 30% rain/storm chance, meager but yet one of the higher precipitation chances we've seen so far in this very hot and very dry July. The clouds and rain should make for slightly cooler weather; there is a good chance that by next weekend we'll at least break the streak of 100-plus-degree days.
Your next three days:
Monday: Mostly Sunny, High of 101, winds S 5-15
Tuesday: Mostly Sunny, 10% storm chance mostly northern third, High of 102
Wednesday: Mostly Sunny 10% storm chance, High of 102
