Pete. Bring on the rain.
Well, clearly your house wasn't flooded last weekend,
but whether you want it or not, it's on the way
and it's multiple rounds of rain, uh, beginning late, late tonight and then, uh,
you know, into the morning rush and then
we have another chance on, you know, tomorrow morning,
as I mentioned that we have another chance on Friday, another chance on Saturday and
pretty good chance on Sunday, Sunday night too.
Yeah. And the, the severe weather threat,
it's not as high as it was the last couple of weeks, but it's gonna be high enough.
So my number one concern would be some core, maybe some slightly larger hail.
This isn't a softball sized hail deal.
It's certainly not a big tornado outbreak.
Now, out in the Panhandle, in West Texas,
they could see some tornadoes out there in the next several hours.
Uh, but it's more, some gusty winds for us too. Uh, again, I'm not ruling out a brief,
uh, spin up tornado,
but again, this is more of a,
a wind and a hail and really more of a heavy rain situation.
So let me show you this and I I wanna let you know as we now today is May 1,
the normal high and the normal low 79 and 60 for today by the end of the month,
look at that,
won't you be happy?
You'll make it up to 88 and 69 for the normal.
So yeah, it's just a month where we continue to climb.
Uh It's the wettest month of the year.
Remember we just finished April with uh one of the top 10 wettest
uh Aprils on record. Uh
The normal for May is 4.78. We average seven tornadoes. Uh
April is uh climatologically, statistically, April is always the
most tornadic month. Uh May is usually our second most active tornado month
with an average of seven and we do gain I like this.
We gain 40 minutes of daylight from the
first to the end of the month
as far as uh wet Mays go. Uh 2015 was the wettest.
Remember that that wasn't too long ago. 17 inches of rain
that May
uh 1927. Cynthia remembers that uh that was the hottest May May 28th.
We hit 107 degrees and the coldest May you remember that one, Cynthia
back
in 1903, we hit 34 on May 1st. So those are some extremes.
Now,
when you look at this flood watch that's in effect
for areas to the southeast of the Metroplex night,
2 to 4 inches of rain in your forecast
between now and tomorrow afternoon, at one o'clock isolated five inches a amount.
Uh, please stay alert right now. Other than this thunderstorm down around
Mejia, that's it. There's a little rain to the south of us.
There's our activity building in from the west.
There we are at midnight.
This is borderline severe at midnight tonight.
It's just entering the W fa viewing area at midnight,
one o'clock in the morning.
It's in a weakening trend by 2 a.m. It's not in the metroplex at 2
a.m. That doesn't mean we won't have rain in the metroplex at one or two,
but the thunderstorm activity arrives probably around three ish or so.
That'll be the timing. Three,
four, there's four o'clock in the morning,
there's five in the morning.
So in the middle of the night, you'll have some thunderstorms around.
There's six o'clock in the morning as you get up and you're heading out to, uh,
head to work, take the kids to school seven o'clock tomorrow morning.
We'll still have some rain around. There's that evening and overnight
severe weather potential. Dallas Fort Worth.
It's a level two out in the rolling plains, West Texas.
The Panhandle is a level three.
This tornado watches for areas out in the Panhandle right now.
So that's where your big biggest tornado threat is.
But we're still looking at some quarter size hail and
some 60 mile an hour winds in a very,
very
very, very low brief spin up tornado situation for us during the overnight.
Again, mainly some, some quarter size hail and some, some gusty winds,
but a lot of heavy rain
seven tomorrow morning.
There we are.
By noon we're starting to see some sun with a little bit of spotty rain possible.
Tomorrow afternoon,
I don't have a whole lot of activity in my forecast as far as rain goes tomorrow night.
But your Thursday evening and overnight, your severe weather threat is really,
really low.
And then as we head into this is, uh Thursday night, midnight Friday morning.
Technically,
then as we approach sunrise on Friday,
more thunderstorms start to fire up by sunrise on Friday and the rain coverage,
it's up and it's down as we head through Sunday.
But anywhere from 30 to 80 plus percent of us will pick
up rain as we head through the next handful of days.
68 with widespread rain overnight, warm and muggy during the day.
Tomorrow, we'll have a high of 81 widespread rain early in the morning.
Then isolated during the afternoon. It's a muggy one half of the sea rain tomorrow.
Then there's the next 14 days
rain Friday, chance of rain, Saturday, chance of rain, Sunday, not a wash out.
Obviously, Saturday and Sunday's rain coverage is higher than Friday.
A little bit of rain Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
And then we dry out on Thursday just in time
to fire things back up the rain machine for Friday,
Saturday and Sunday on Mother's Day.