North Texas is flirting with record-high temperatures. Again.
We are looking at typical Texas weather in October: Near record highs Saturday and chances of rain and thunderstorms by Monday.
“We’re gonna have a little weather pattern change. So currently, we’re experiencing fairly warm temperatures, especially for this time of the year. We’re probably about 10 to 15 degrees above normal,” said Juan Hernandez, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service Fort Worth office. “But as we go into next week, we will see that pattern change.”
It will be a two-punch combination that brings moisture to North Texas.
First, Hurricane Norma, a Category 2 hurricane in the North Pacific Ocean, is expected to hit the southern tip of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur Saturday. Moisture from the storm is expected to increase chances of rain in the Dallas-Fort Worth area by 20%-30% at the start of next week, Hernandez told the Star-Telegram.
Then, another cold front rolls in late Tuesday and early Wednesday, increasing the chances of rain and thunderstorms, according to to the NWS meteorologist.
“This is not going to be any tropical system, but it’s coming in from the west coast,” Hernandez said. “It looks like we might get rain chances even at the end of next week.”
Near record highs in Dallas-Fort Worth Saturday
Just when you thought things were cooling down in North Texas, the region is flirting with record high temperatures. Again. The NWS forecast shows a high of 92 degrees Saturday — only a couple of degrees from the record of 94 in 1939 and 1979, according to NWS data.
Many will not soon forget the scorching summer temperatures we had this year. In August, Dallas-Fort Worth experienced 18 days over 105 degrees, including 110 degrees on both Aug. 25 and 26.
We did get respite from the hot days with a cold front rolling into North Texas early in September. But the real cooling down may have to wait until winter when an El Nino weather pattern promises wet and cold conditions for Dallas-Fort Worth.
The good news is that the high temperatures this weekend may be it for hot days in the region, Hernandez said.
“I mean, we’re starting to get into this time period where we’re gonna start to see cold fronts coming down. And if we continue to see that trend, the probabilities (of getting more hot days) do decrease as we go into the latter half of October and into November,” he said.
This story was originally published October 20, 2023 at 11:50 AM.