Triple Number Highs Continue...For Awhile

New record high for the date, we hit 107° at DFW breaking the old record of 106° set back in 1984. We are now 3rd on the list of most 100° days in one year (53) with six more 100° days forecasted in the seven day. Yes, I said six out of seven implying that at least ONE day is NOT 100 degrees. That would be next Friday, a day that also carries with it the best rain chance of the week ahead (20%).

The weekend looks blazing hot. Tomorrow we'll get to 106°, that would TIE the record high for the date. Sunday we'll have more in clouds and a slight rain chance (10%); this should keep highs around 102°. Overnight lows tonight in the low 80's, around 83° on Sunday morning. We continue to tack on more 80-degree mornings, we have already logged more than any year on record.

Back to school week for most starts Monday, highs from Monday to Thursday should surpass just over 100 degrees every day. Small rain chances are around Monday and Thursday. For the most part we are very dry as shown in the 5-day rainfall outlook from the HPC:

We are getting closer to the peak of the Atlantic Hurricane season and several storms are in the basin. Tropical depression number 8 became Tropical Storm Harvey today, it'll come on shore in Central America tomorrow morning and will no immediate impact on our weather in Texas. Two more waves are out in the central Atlantic, both showing good signs of developing into tropical depression and then storms (they would be called Irene and Jose). Long range models put the first storm into the Gulf of Mexico, below is the ECWMF model showing the storm hitting the panhandle of Florida a week from Sunday:

This one is the GFS and it shows the storm in the Gulf a week from today and starting to hook north.  

We'll keep an eye on the computer models, we get updates at least every 12 hours. If the trend continues bringing the storm into the Gulf it could end up having an impact on our weather here in north Texas.