Texas Summer 2017

[Brent]

Okay, I just had dinner at Pappasito's in Richardson, and every tree in the parking lot was FULL of grackles. That just doesn't seem normal for late July. Is it?

also was reported on the news tonight ragweed is starting a month ahead of schedule...

things that make you go hmmm

Good grief the 0z Euro is even more ridiculous than last night... 4 1/2 inches of rain next Wed/Thu for DFW

The GFS is bone dry during the same timeframe

[bubba hotep]

Okay, I just had dinner at Pappasito's in Richardson, and every tree in the parking lot was FULL of grackles. That just doesn't seem normal for late July. Is it?

also was reported on the news tonight ragweed is starting a month ahead of schedule...

things that make you go hmmm

Good grief the 0z Euro is even more ridiculous than last night... 4 1/2 inches of rain next Wed/Thu for DFW

The GFS is bone dry during the same timeframe

The Euro seems to be favoring an axis of heavier rain from the Panhandle down towards Houston. A bit of a bummer for the southern folks after it was showing the axis more laid across S. Texas in earlier runs.

[gboudx]

Okay, I just had dinner at Pappasito's in Richardson, and every tree in the parking lot was FULL of grackles. That just doesn't seem normal for late July. Is it?

also was reported on the news tonight ragweed is starting a month ahead of schedule...

things that make you go hmmm

Interesting. I've been doing the immunotherapy allergy shots for over a year. My allergen numbers have come way down, with some allergens completely gone. Looking forward to see how I respond to ragweed since it was one of my worst. I no longer take any allergy medicine.

[Portastorm]

Yep ... no "summer cancel" here. Just growing drought conditions, unfortunately.

[Tejas89]

FWD now calling for a low of 75 monday night, the first of August. Stepping down?

About where our normal lows should be, but will feel refreshing anyway lol.

[Ntxw]

FWD now calling for a low of 75 monday night, the first of August. Stepping down?

About where our normal lows should be, but will feel refreshing anyway lol.

More importantly with dewpoints in the 50s and 40s it will smell of fall sort of. And not the 75 but feels like 90

[Brent]

Finally some dry air maybe? The humidity has been stifling all summer due to the rain

GFS has come around to some rain late next week when the Euro has been hyping it up... nothing extreme but temps well below normal like the Euro.

[bubba hotep]

I wonder if the high clouds streaming in from the east will be enough to keep DFW below 100 today?

[Ntxw]

I wonder if the high clouds streaming in from the east will be enough to keep DFW below 100 today?

Dews are still above 70 which may keep us at or below 100. Usually you want to see it drop to mid and lower 60s to get actual temps above 100.

Tomorrow may be viable to get really hot before front passage and storms kick in. There was a day last year that shot up to 107+ before storms cooled it off with front.

[bubba hotep]

lol... I see that the run-to-run qpf flipping and flopping carried over to the updated version of the Euro.

[Brent]

lol... I see that the run-to-run qpf flipping and flopping carried over to the updated version of the Euro.

lol from over 4.50" of rain to 0.20" in back to back runs...

The GFS/Euro are much closer aligned now though

I'm a bit lol at WFAA trying to melt crayons on the roof on facebook live... this isn't even really a heat wave...

[BrokenGlassRepublicn]

I wonder if the high clouds streaming in from the east will be enough to keep DFW below 100 today?

Dews are still above 70 which may keep us at or below 100. Usually you want to see it drop to mid and lower 60s to get actual temps above 100.

Tomorrow may be viable to get really hot before front passage and storms kick in. There was a day last year that shot up to 107+ before storms cooled it off with front.

Also happened on June 23 of this year. Not quite as hot, though.

[Brent]

99 at DFW, wonder if they made it to 100?

Big fire burning in Grand Prairie too(tires at an auction or something?), smoke seen all over Dallas

[South Texas Storms]

DFW and HOU both reached 99 today with peak Heat Index values above 105F. Brutal.

[bubba hotep]

99 at DFW, wonder if they made it to 100?

Big fire burning in Grand Prairie too(tires at an auction or something?), smoke seen all over Dallas

The initial report has it at 99 but I've seen them come back and bump the temp before:

CLIMATE REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
424 PM CDT THU JUL 27 2017


...................................

...THE DALLAS FORT WORTH CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR JULY 27 2017...
VALID AS OF 0400 PM LOCAL TIME.

CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1981 TO 2010
CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1898 TO 2017


WEATHER ITEM OBSERVED TIME RECORD YEAR NORMAL DEPARTURE LAST
VALUE (LST) VALUE VALUE FROM YEAR
NORMAL
..................................................................
TEMPERATURE (F)
TODAY
MAXIMUM 99 259 PM 106 1944 97 2 96
MINIMUM 80 535 AM 68 1994 76 4 79
1933
AVERAGE 90

PRECIPITATION (IN)
TODAY 0.00 2.95 1962 0.05 -0.05 0.00
MONTH TO DATE 4.12 1.94 2.18 3.89
SINCE JUN 1 12.56 5.73 6.83 7.49
SINCE JAN 1 24.42 21.98 2.44 24.25

..................................................................

[bubba hotep]

Remember last week when the models were showing 105+ for DFW today and tomorrow?

[South Texas Storms]

Latest models continue to show a wet pattern developing across much of Texas next week and possibly continuing through the first half of August.

[Cpv17]

Latest models continue to show a wet pattern developing across much of Texas next week and possibly continuing through the first half of August.

Yep, the 18z GFS run is quite wet!

[Ntxw]

DFW just missed 100 today, official high is 99.

[Brent]

Remember last week when the models were showing 105+ for DFW today and tomorrow?

Heck I remember a couple times it approached 2011 levels this upcoming few days... close to 110 and barely below 85 at night.

Tomorrow looks to be the last shot at 100 for at least the forecasting range... GFS is much closer to 90 than 100 for most of the entire run...