I want you to take a look at a
couple of these videos. Sonia Azad.
Have you ever heard of that girl?
Yeah I have. She tweeted us this one.
What is she doing?
Still awake this time of night she's
watching the you know, News 8 after
Dark Chris Lightning over Dallas.
Look at these pictures I mean that
is some vivid vivid lightning.
Thanks to Sonia for that.
Brady Phipps tweet now.
Now this is up in Collin County.
This is a Melissa looking to the South so
looking into Dallas County, the storms.
And I mean really lighting up the sky.
You know this is the type of deal.
Chris, you may have heard this
when you grew up and people
would talk about heat lightning.
Hmm, OK, there there isn't such
a thing as heat lightning.
OK, it's it's just false.
Lightning is lightning?
OK, what what's happening here is
the thunderstorm is so far away
you just can't hear the Thunder.
But if you're closer to that there's
Thunder but there's no such thing
as heat lightning it's just a
good old summertime thunderstorm
and that's what's taking place in
Melissa storms over the Trinity,
Henrik Court tweeted me this one man
look at the Lightning there lots and
lots of lightning and very heavy rain.
Still coming down at Fort Worth.
Look, Fort Worth picked up about an hour
and 20 minutes, 3/4 of an inch of rain.
Look at this next one,
Dallas in the last, I'm Chris.
Maybe 25 minutes.
Picked up over 1/2 an inch of rain.
It's 72.
That's downtown at 6 here at Young St,
our studio Cedar Hill.
It's been raining for an hour
and a half or so.
74 in Cedar Hill,
an inch and a third there in Dallas Baptist.
Still some lightning, 3/4 of an inch
and a temp right now of 74 degrees.
Now, not everyone is seeing the rain.
I mean, look at this.
Europe and Collin County you
haven't had anything at all.
Neither of you in Denton.
But Dallas and Tarrant have seen
some really serious soakers,
as evidenced by that video that
Chris showed just a moment ago.
But this activity's trying to
drift to the north just a tad.
It'll make it into southern
Denton and southern Collin County
here shortly it's fizzling out.
But a little bit of rain in those locations.
But look at the rain right now,
just South of downtown Dallas,
just on the east side of downtown
Dallas and over here the Dallas
at Kaufman County Line moving
up toward you and Rockwall.
And he's you're not in the rain right now.
Rockwall and heath.
But it's not far away then we look
over an Arlington Grand Prairie Bedford
over into Fort Worth in Saginaw,
so some rain in Tarrant County down
into Johnson around Joshua Alvarado,
even in Ellis, Midlothian and Maypearl,
you've picked up rain as well tonight.
So here's the timing. That's 11.
That's midnight.
There's 1:00 o'clock in the morning.
It's fizzled out overnight,
so 3:00 o'clock we're done with any rain and
anything you know from 1:00 to 3:00 o'clock.
Pretty light stuff.
This is your morning rush,
so a little bit of scattered rain.
It's possible tomorrow morning
as you head out to work,
the kids go out to school.
This is 7 in the morning,
so overnight 3040% of us pick up
rain and then 7:00 tomorrow morning.
Watch this so the rain this
this is the model that was.
I mean, it could not have been
more accurate for us tonight,
so I'm going with this tomorrow
morning so the rain starts to move in.
It's possible during the morning.
I believe it's a little more
likely around 9 ish in the morning.
This is noon tomorrow there's 3:00 PM.
Some thunderstorms are firing up,
so they'll be scattered about,
but the coverage tomorrow won't
be widespread.
4050% of us pick up rain on Thursday,
but here's what I'm excited about.
I mean, I'm just excited to be
here talking with you tonight,
but look at this two to four inches of rain.
This is not tonight or tomorrow.
The bulk of that happens next week.
OK?
It starts a little bit of rain Saturday
and a little bit more on Sunday,
but Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and even Thursday of next week.
We're having some soakers in the
forecast then and I've really
been conservative on these numbers
because all of the computer models.
Right now they're all talking
about triple this amount.
Now we need 15 inches of rain
to get out of the drought.
I don't have that in my forecast.
Some of the computer models
are hinting at that.
I don't have that in my forecast,
but I'd certainly think a couple of
inches are possible as we head through
the next 10 days and that is great news.
Otherwise, look at this.
You see that there near or below normal with
our temperatures for the next six days.
It's the best forecast I've had since.
Memorial Day 75.
Tonight, the rain will come to an
end 40% of a sea rain tomorrow.
I haven't had a high temperature that
cool since June 8th when we hit 89 degrees.
It's been a while.
Look at that little scattered rain tomorrow.
Friday's dry a little bit
of rain on Saturday,
a little bit better chance of rain on Sunday,
but the real rains happen Monday,
Tuesday,
Wednesday and even Thursday of next week.