Turning The Corner On Wet Weather

Welcome to June. Maybe it would be more accurate to say to the record rain of May. Less than half-way thru the year and we already have 88% of our annual rainfall:

Here in the CBS11 Weather Department we're watching rivers more than radars. The Trinity river at Dallas has to come down before all the roads open back up. Downstream the water keeps rising:

We'll spend the first week of June draining away what is left of May. What will June bring you say as you flip your desk calendar over to the first month of summer? Well this is what we would expect:

Of course climate is what you expect, weather is what you get. And of the first week of June we get dry:

And just in time for the start of summer the hottest weather of the season shows up. In the plethora of rain there's been an absence of heat:

Usually this time of year when you subtract the rain chances you get a warm-up. High pressure is building to our west bringing 100° afternoons to the Panhandle and our first 90° days here:

Our lands can absorb no more monster rains for awhile. They can arrive in June in the form of Tropical systems that grown right inside the Gulf. But this is an El Nino summer; hurricane activity should be suppressed. The official forecast is a season of low-activity:

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