Warm Spring Break...Small Rain Chances

We have enjoyed a warm and beautiful start to the work week or spring break, whichever the case.  Expect the warmth to continue this week with south winds all week.  The south wind will aid in Gulf of Mexico moisture streaming up into North Texas.  So expect it to become more muggy as the week goes on, along with more cloud cover.

In the upper levels of the atmosphere, a southwest flow will bring overhead several tiny, weak disturbances that will help trigger a few isolated, small showers or storms.  The issue that will prevent a widespread rain event will be the lack of any surface fronts or features that will focus rain activity.  Thus any shower that forms will be randomly placed over North Texas…and the showers will be widely spaced.  Also, the cap will be strong over North Texas as well…which will prevent many storms to form.  So mainly dry, with a few interruptions from brief tiny storms Wednesday thru the weekend.

FORECAST

Tonight…Partly cloudy & mild. Low 58° South wind 5-15 mph.

Tomorrow…Partly cloudy, breezy & warm.  High 80°  South wind 10-20 mph.

Wednesday - Friday…Partly to mostly cloudy. 20% chance of storms each day.  Lows 64-66°  Highs 77-80°

Saturday…Mostly cloudy with a 30% chance of storms.  This day features the strongest disturbance working through…so we will see just a few more storms.  High 77°

LAKE LEVELS GREATLY IMPROVED

After a wet winter, including most recently the rainfall over the weekend and late last week, North Texas lake & reservoir levels have gone up quite a bit.  Most area lakes are at least 90% full.  Even those reservoirs that are not at 90% capacity are still way up, in some cases over double, since the heart of the drought in North Texas.  As we've been reporting, most of North Texas is out of the drought.  The main exception is the east and southeast parts of North Texas.