Record Heat in DFW - Article from Dallas Morning News
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:22 am
Heat melts records
09:34 AM CDT on Monday, April 17, 2006
By KIMBERLY DURNAN / The Dallas Morning News
If Monday’s temperature reaches 98 degrees as predicted, it will mark the seventh day this year of record highs.
The highest temperature recorded on April 17 was 94 degrees, set both in 1913 and 1925, said Jennifer Dunn, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
“We have a ridge of high pressure that has been anchored over us,” Dunn said. “With the southerly winds it pumps up all the heat and moisture from the gulf and raises our temperatures to higher than usual for this time of year.”
The weather has been unseasonably warm since the first day of 2006, when the temperature soared to 83 degrees, blasting a 96-year-old record by 4 degrees. Since then, a record has been broken twice more in January, and once each in February, March and April. (Official temperatures for North Texas are recorded at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.)
High winds and a lack of rain have resulted in the above-average temperatures, said Jesse Moore, another NWS meteorologist. The pattern should continue through the summer, he predicted, with at least 20-plus days of triple-digit temperatures.
Amid the heat, there was a moment where the pendulum swung the other direction. On March 24, a little more than three weeks ago, a record-breaking low temperature of 30 degrees was recorded, edging the 31-degree mark set in 1966 and 1974.
Tuesday’s temperature should reach the mid-90s during the day. But a cool front should move through the region that night and early Wednesday, dropping highs to the 70s and lows to the 50s and 60s through Friday, Dunn said.
Rain chances are 40 percent on Thursday and Friday. Weekend high temperatures should reach the 80s, she said.
09:34 AM CDT on Monday, April 17, 2006
By KIMBERLY DURNAN / The Dallas Morning News
If Monday’s temperature reaches 98 degrees as predicted, it will mark the seventh day this year of record highs.
The highest temperature recorded on April 17 was 94 degrees, set both in 1913 and 1925, said Jennifer Dunn, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
“We have a ridge of high pressure that has been anchored over us,” Dunn said. “With the southerly winds it pumps up all the heat and moisture from the gulf and raises our temperatures to higher than usual for this time of year.”
The weather has been unseasonably warm since the first day of 2006, when the temperature soared to 83 degrees, blasting a 96-year-old record by 4 degrees. Since then, a record has been broken twice more in January, and once each in February, March and April. (Official temperatures for North Texas are recorded at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.)
High winds and a lack of rain have resulted in the above-average temperatures, said Jesse Moore, another NWS meteorologist. The pattern should continue through the summer, he predicted, with at least 20-plus days of triple-digit temperatures.
Amid the heat, there was a moment where the pendulum swung the other direction. On March 24, a little more than three weeks ago, a record-breaking low temperature of 30 degrees was recorded, edging the 31-degree mark set in 1966 and 1974.
Tuesday’s temperature should reach the mid-90s during the day. But a cool front should move through the region that night and early Wednesday, dropping highs to the 70s and lows to the 50s and 60s through Friday, Dunn said.
Rain chances are 40 percent on Thursday and Friday. Weekend high temperatures should reach the 80s, she said.
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