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You can have it all. My first Spring and start of Summer in Texas has featured a dismal severe weather season, a metric ton of rainy/cloudy days and not a death ridge in (reliable) sight. I thought I would at least have hot/sunny weather with multiple rounds of severe t'storms to look forward to after the disaster in February, but it's not happening so far. Might as well be back in Michigan...

That, or we're all going to be storm chasing in AL and MS from now on...

For DFW, May 2020 ended -2.2*F below normal. Unfortunately, it was still 0.3*F shy of making the top 20 coldest list (the two 90*F+ days in the last full week messed that up). That said, this was the coldest May since 2015, and the 2nd coldest in 24 years.

Oh goody...

^^^That's one way to put a positive spin on it, lol.

So, for the day time, it was the coldest it's been this late in the season in over 130 years. Impressive.

What day/year was that, out of curiosity?

Even Joe Public is starting to notice this unsually crappy weather we've been having, lol

Welp, June's looking to be just as bad as May...

lol at DTX and GRR. Even thr SW US has it beat for the last Tornado Warning.

This season has been pretty awful for Tornado Alley as well. Most of those reports in KS happened on Wednesday, and notice the complete dearth of tornado reports in OK. There were the 2 weak rain-wrapped tornadoes that hit north Dallas last week, but aside from that, there have been no damaging wind reports this season and barely a handful of large hail reports (none of which IMBY, I might add) in the immediate DFW Metroplex.

Since when have Alabama and Mississippi been desirable?

This was the 18z sounding from OKC. Not the most impressive (especially not for tornadoes).

As of 3pm, today marks the 4th 90*F day of the year at DFW. It's going to be the last one for a while, unfortunately.

^^^2021 in a nutshell.

What a difference a day with plenty of late May sunlight makes! DFW is overachieving by a few degrees and has made it to 90*F (3rd for the year). About got damn time... Unfortunately, it won't last long.

In an unusual twist, I see DET was notably warmer than DTW today. DET reached a high of 91*F and DTW only reached a high of 88*F. That said, as far as I can tell, there's still been no official 90*F+ day yet at DTW for this year.

Right on the money.

If May 2021 ended today in DFW, it would tie for the 14th coldest on record (with an average of 70.5*F). And given the current forecast, there is a reasonable possibility it can still end up a top 20 coldest when it's over.

Well, from a flooding standpoint, the good news is that CAMs models are rather unimpressive looking over the next 48 hours for DFW. It's messy, but the organized convection manages to do a hop, skip and jump over the region between the poor timing and the outflow boundaries, which is the nature of how things work with mesoscale complexes. The CAMs aren't perfect though. We'll see how right they are.

Well this would be an interesting outcome (note the time of day)...

Although the cell was tornado warned, it seems they're calling it high winds for now.

This is gold:

000 NWUS54 KFWD 162004 LSRFWD PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 304 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 2021 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 1115 AM TORNADO 5 WNW TROY 31.23N 97.38W 05/16/2021 BELL TX EMERGENCY MNGR SEVERAL HOMES SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE FROM A BRIEF TORNADO ALONG WILLOW GROVE RD BETWEEN MOODY RD AND FRANKLIN RD. SOME OUTBUILDINGS AND CHICKEN COOPS DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. && $$