Between the Saharan Dust settling in and the death ridge seemingly not relenting, might have to begin worrying about drought conditions expanding across TX.
A corridor along / just west of I-35 is already reporting severe to extreme drought conditions
I don't believe DFW has yet either (during Met Summer). Several nightly maximum lows have been broken though.
That said, DFW may be on track for a top 10 hottest July on record. It would be pretty impressive to achieve that back-to-back.
Achieved an intra-hour high of 101*F early in the afternoon before the outflow boundary (pseudo-front) moved through. DFW's currently at 10 days AOA 100*F for the season.
I did speak too soon about the cloud cover, because an altostratus cloud deck quickly filled in not long after my post this morning and stuck around for much of the day.
At last, we have a morning with plenty of blue sky and good insolation.
We'll be interesting to see what difference that makes with the highs.
Either way, off to the races!
This airmasss is something else though with how efficiently it heats up.
Yet again, deapite being socked in with convective debris all morning with light showers, highs still recovered into the low/mid 100s.
I've heard the Summer of 2009 mentioned as an analog, and it's an interesting one.
The temps/departure ls were a bit more variable here in North Texas (similar to this year so far), but yeah, it was an all-out torch down that way.
But the most exciting thunderstorms occur more frequently at 100 than 40...
7/4/12 in Detroit remains one of my all-time favorite weather days ever for that resaon.
Just temps below freezing is too cold, and it accompanies the misfortune of dirty snow/ice sticking around forever and constantly overcast skies for folks east of Lake Michigan too.
Like I said, it's all about picking your poison.