Hot weather hangs around as North Texas welcomes fall

Those brown, brittle leaves on trees across North Texas aren’t changing color because it’s about to be fall.

“It’s probably because they need some water,” said Lamont Bain, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.

While fall begins at 3:20 a.m. Wednesday — that’s the astronomical fall recognized by most, not the meteorological fall that began Sept. 1 — temperatures continue to be stuck in summer mode.

“Looks like over the next week or two we won’t see any fall-like temperatures,” Bain said. “We’re still looking at high temperatures that are slightly above normal.”

Here’s a look at our weather, by the numbers:

94 degrees: Monday’s high temperature.

93: high expected Wednesday.

93.3: average high this September — 5 degrees above normal.

15 days of 100 degrees or more this year, including two in September.

39.10 inches of rain this year — 13.14 inches above normal.

15.97 inches of rain at this time last year.

10:38 p.m. on Dec. 21, when winter begins. It can’t get here soon enough.

This story was originally published September 22, 2015 at 11:08 AM with the headline "Hot weather hangs around as North Texas welcomes fall."