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3rd time's the charm, right?

Stephenville also hit 100*F.

Oh, I failed to mention, 95*F was the previous record high for today (set in 1984). It has been broken with an official high of 96*F at DFW

Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued until 10pm. It includes all of DFW and the I-35 corridor from the OK border to Austin.

It's currently 100*F in Mineral Wells.

I love it that most of us are finally getting satisfactory weather.

Word on the street is the HRRR doesn't look too shabby either.

Also, IMO, the date on this thread should be extended through 5/8 (at least).

I haven't really invested much time/energy into this marginal setup, but seeing that sounding and what you say about the 3km NAM's depiction...

Thr forecast high today has been bumped to 96*F.

90s are now in the forecast for DFW through at least Tuesday.

Can't help but chuckle at the SPC They've been bouncing Dallas in and out of the Slight Risk area with every new outlook. Can't make up their minds, lol...

Yep. I'm never going back into the office if I can help it...

For sure to us big city folks.

Too bad it'll melt before reaching the Mason-Dixon line...

Hoping the current long range peojections don't pull on Lucy on you all (it's happened before).

The root of the issue is that people, by their nature, are mostly concerned about weather that may or may not impact their own backyard. If it happens elsewhere, then it's out of sight and out of mind. If one would like to see more discussion about weather in a specific location, then more people from that specific location have to join the forum & actively participate. That's the only solution, as no type of realignment with the subforums would fix the Viriginia Beach and West Palm Beach examples you shared.

Imagine getting 3 feet of snow in May...

The NAO/AO/PNA are all projected to trend towards neutral as well. Obviously, this all will make more of a difference the further SW one is, with respect to the extent of warmth.

The NWS recognizes Heat Lightning as a way to describe it. So as I said, Heat Lightning. https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-heat#:~:text=The term heat lightning is,to hear the accompanying thunder.

Now this is more like it!

The heat lightning on Summer nights in Florida is definitely the best. There was an event in MI about 15-20 years ago (wanna say 2006-ish time frame?) that had awesome heat lightning too. Was seeing frequent lightning flashes in the cloud tops of storms that were hitting Saginaw from all the way on Detroit's east side. Then headed into the evening and after sunset, it was non-stop flashes to the west and NW as storms gradually moved in from SW Michigan (they did weaken before reaching the city though).