Relief from Texas heat wave is coming. Here’s when you’ll wake up to a 70-degree morning
North Texas recorded its hottest day of the year on Tuesday, a sweltering 108 degrees.
It only took one day for North Texas to beat the 106 degrees recorded by the National Weather Service on Monday. To the day, North Texas has seen 12 days over triple digits this summer.
The rest of the week will remain hot and dry with temperatures expected to be in the low to middle 100s for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, said Patricia Sanchez, meteorologist at the NWS Fort Worth office.
However, a weak cold front is headed this way to bring temperatures below triple digits this weekend.
The front will move into North Texas on Friday night going into Saturday, with many people waking up to temperatures in the 70s, Sanchez said. Saturday will warm up to around the mid-90s, with not much changing on Sunday.
There is a chance of storms coming into Texas on Friday night with the cold front, but most of the activity will be along the Red River and is unlikely to reach the Metroplex.
“Not much of relief from the rain, but at least temperatures don’t look as hot as they were yesterday and again today,” Sanchez said.
IS 108 DEGREES THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN NORTH TEXAS?
Nope, that would be 113 degrees back in June 1980.
While 108 degrees is a significant high for North Texas, its a drop in the bucket compared to previous temperatures. Here are the five hottest temperatures ever recorded in North Texas:
- 113 degrees – June 26 and 27, 1980
- 112 degrees – Aug. 18, 1909; Aug. 11, 1936 and June 28, 1980
- 111 degrees – Sept. 4, 2000
- 110 degrees – Aug. 10, 1936; Aug. 16, 1943; July 2 and 18, 1980; July 12, 1998 and Aug. 2, 2011
- 109 degrees – July 29, 1912; July 25, 1954; July 1, 3 and 17, 1980; Aug. 6, 2003; Aug. 3, 2011 and July 18-20, 2022
North Texas will need to record a temperature just one degree higher to crack the top five hottest days of the year.
