![]() “There was quite a bit of variation in the rainfall totals,” Barnes said.Īt least one fatality was blamed on the downpours as emergency responders across the area reported responding to hundreds of high-water calls. By Monday afternoon, the rain had moved out of the area, she said. ![]() “We’ve been in drought conditions, so the ground soaked up a lot of it but when you get that much rain over that short a period of time, it’s certainly going to cause flooding, and that’s what we saw, definitely in the urban areas here,” Huckaby said.Īcross the area, rainfall amounts ranged from less than 1 inch (3 centimeters) to over 15 inches (38 centimeters), said National Weather Service meteorologist Sarah Barnes. The most was 9.57 inches (24.3 centimeters) that fell Sept. That ranked second for the top 10 most rain over 24 hours in Dallas on record. The official National Weather Service record station at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport reported 9.19 inches (23 centimeters) of rain in the 24 hours ending at 2 p.m. “The Dallas-Fort Worth area was pretty much ground zero for the heaviest rain overnight,” said Daniel Huckaby, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. READ MORE: Election workers abruptly quit, upending rural Texas county This entry was posted in Forecast Blog, Holiday, News and tagged Forecast, Holiday, Rain on Novemby dfwwea5.DALLAS (AP) - Heavy rains across the drought-stricken Dallas-Fort Worth area on Monday caused streets to flood, submerging vehicles as officials warned motorists to stay off the roads and water seeped into some homes and businesses. This is something to definitely watch, and the forecast could change drastically next weekend. This is due, in part, to the fact that cold air is very dense and tends to sink south against the mean flow, and to the fact that models have a hard time in general with placement of shallow/dense-low level cold air. In this type of situation, usually the cold air wins out, and we do get a some sort of frontal passage. While here at DFW Weather, we are going for the warmer weather scenario for the official forecast, this forecaster will caution that Arctic air is damming up on the models in Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles. ![]() Last week, it looked like we were going to get another surge of Arctic air, but over the weekend, the models back off this scenario. Computer model guidance is showing temperatures rebounding well into the 70s for the Thanksgiving weekend. This will setup a beautiful Thanksgiving week for North Texas with seasonal weather. The cold front will bring temperatures down a good 15 degrees tomorrow with more seasonable weather. Therefore, the official DFW Weather forecast went with the cooler guidance number for highs today in the middle 70s. However, the ground is still very wet and will help to offset the warming a bit. ![]() ![]() High temperatures are going to be very tricky today as compression warming from the front and westerly component to the wind will support a substantial warm-up in the upper 70s. Courtesy of Accuweather.Īnother deepening storm system in Colorado will tighten the pressure gradient causing our winds to pick up out of the west today and become quite gusty out ahead of a cold front. Radar estimate of rainfall totals over the last 24 hours. ![]()
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