Windy and Warm Weather Turns Wet
BREEZY AND WARM TOMORROW
Today's high reached into the mid-70's, tomorrow it'll get closer to 80 degrees by afternoon. The typical high this time of year is 68° so we are enjoying well above normal temperatures for our weekend. You likely noticed the very strong winds we had through the day. We clocked gusts near 40mph, the wind advisory that was in effect for most of our area expired at 5pm. There is not a wind advisory issued for tomorrow; winds will still be rather breezy out of the southwest at 15mph with gusts near 25mph.
A COUPLE OF WARM NIGHTS AHEAD BEFORE THE RAIN
Overnight temperatures are only going to drop down into the mid-60's due to this steady south wind and mostly cloudy skies. You know you have a warm day ahead when the overnight lows are closer to the typical highs. Clouds will be with us all day tomorrow, even a little thicker than today. Dewpoints will be in the upper 50's, very moist air so close to mid-November. Highs are forecast to hit 80° at DFW, the record high for the date is 85°.
The real weather show starts on Monday. It'll again be a warm, breezy start to the day with lows in the upper 60's. In 48 hours these temperatures will be the afternoon highs. A storm system arrives to our southwest late Monday; the storm chances start to show up in the afternoon. The rain chance picks up from around 40% in the afternoon to around 80% by Monday night. Severe weather is a possiblity to our south below Waco in the day, some of these storms could start moving in the metro area by Monday night. We'll certainly see some decent rains from this system, the eastern half from the I-35E corridor could get close between .50" and 1" of rainfall. Below you can see rain totals estimated by the HPC:
This system clears out during the morning hours on Tuesday. Highs will get into the low 70's as winds turn to the north later in the afternoon. We'll enjoy dry weather all the way until the weekend. It'll be back to the 70's for afternoon highs by Thursday.
