Mavs Turn Back Heat, North Texas Not So Much

Upper 90's the new normal here in north Texas. Highs today for the first half of the weekend again drifted toward the upper 90's at DFW with a few triple numbers showing up to our south. Average high so far in June? 96°. Very small storm chances start to show up tomorrow and linger in our eastern half through Monday afternoon.

Air quality is starting to be an issue, we are under an orange alert tomorrow over the metroplex do to high ozone levels. We get this ozone from tailpipe emissions interacting with sunlight. It is very harmful to lungs, especially to those with any kind of lung disease, the very old or the very young. Limiting the amount of gasoline you use helps everyone so try to help. I suspect we are going to have several days this week with similar alerts.

Tonight we expect lows to get down to the low to mid-70's. A low pressure system over New Orleans continues to pump moisture into the eastern and southeast corner of our area. We are including a mere 10% coverage of some slow-moving storms in the afternoon heating on Sunday. These storms are more likely along and SE of a Hillsboro to Emory line away from the DFW area. The few storms that crop up will have the potential to produce very heavy rain in isolated areas. Highs on Sunday right back into the upper 90's. DFW hasn't logged a 100° in 285 days.

Monday we'll again include a 10% storm chance for DFW and points east. By Tuesday and Wednesday we are right back to mostly sunny skies and mostly dry days with highs still in the upper 90's. The same weather holds true to the end of the work week.

The Climate Prediction Center is forecasting good chances for above-normal temperatures for our area all the way out to June 18th. Everything in the shade of orange on the map below denotes a chance for warm weather here in the first half of June.

We are four days into the hurricane season and the HPC is watching the a low over Jamaica for tropical development. There is a 30% chance that in the next 48 hours it could be come a tropical cyclone.