Let’s be honest: We needed the rain, Dallas-Fort Worth. But will it stay wet?

Cloudy skies and wet roads have been the norm in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex for the past several days bringing welcome relief from scorching temperatures and extreme drought in July.

“It’s been a little bit out of the ordinary to have the rain stick around with us for almost a week in August,” said Matt Stalley, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. “We usually get a couple of breaks from the heat each summer but not normally this long.”

The rain managed to keep Sunday’s highs in the comfortable range and lingered into the Monday morning commute.

Highs on Monday will top out in the mid-80s with a bit more humidity and rain chances throughout the day remaining fairly high at 70 percent.

“It will feel a little muggy with humidity in the 60 percent range where it’s been a lot lately,” Stalley said.

Monday night rain showers and thunderstorms are likely with lows in the lower 70s and south winds blowing at 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday will begin with clouds and a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, forecasters say.

“Another large area of rain will be with us Tuesday morning keeping with our current wet weather trend,” said Stalley.

But things will change as we head into the afternoon with the sun returning and highs topping out around 90 degrees.

There will be a chance of showers and thunderstorms, 40 percent, in the afternoon once the winds out of the south begin to increase to 10 to 15 mph. The evening will start mostly cloudy and then become partly cloudy. Lows Tuesday night will be in the mid-70s and those south winds will remain strong.

By Wednesday we’ll be back to our more familiar — and hot — weather pattern in North Texas with partly sunny skies in the morning and then mostly sunny skies pushing highs into the mid-90s. Wednesday night will be partly cloudy with lows in the upper 70s.

“The rain will stay to our north and east by mid-week and we’ll get back to our typical August weather pattern,” said Stalley. “However the humidity will decrease and stay in the 35 to 40 percent range as it heats back up.”

As of Thursday, the area was in an extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Thursday will be sunny with highs topping out in the mid-90s and partly cloudy skies will bring temperatures down to the upper 70s into the evening and overnight.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday have identical forecasts with the skies mostly sunny and highs in the mid-90s. The forecast for each evening calls for partly cloudy skies and lows in the upper 70s.

But don’t get too comfortable with the dry weather. There could be more rain moving into the area next week, according to Stalley.

“We may not be done with the rain. By late next week a weak front may move through the area and bring some more rain in the bottom half of the week into the weekend,” he said. “But it’s pretty far out so that could possibly change.”

This story was originally published August 12, 2018 at 7:59 PM with the headline "Let’s be honest: We needed the rain, Dallas-Fort Worth. But will it stay wet?."