Live from Dallas, Fort Worth.
This is WFAA news happening right now.
We are under an UR caught weather watch
with extreme heat in the forecast all week,
already hitting our first triple
digit of the year. Thank you so
much for joining us here on mid.
I'm Cleo Green alongside
meteorologist Maria Louise Mari.
Very, very hot outside.
I think that's an understatemen.
I mean, it just hits you in your face.
I can't even keep my hair straighted.
That's why it's like this.
It looks beautiful.
It is so
hot and our temperature is just going
to stay constantly hot all week.
So I think that's one of the big
things to take away from this.
We are looking at a heat
advisory that's in place for.
All of North Texas between
now and 8:00 PM on Tuesday.
Now this will likely get extend.
It may even get upgraded to an
excessive heat warning as we
approach middle parts of the we.
I'm at least expecting it to be
extended a few more days just
because we are going to experiee
similar conditions every day the
rest of the week for our friends
across the rest of the state alo
dealing with the heat alerts,
and I'll show you that a bit later on,
but I want to get you a caught n
the current temperature 92 degr.
It feels like 106.
We've been talking about a tripe
digit feels like or heat index
temperature since an hour ago.
Winds are out of the Southeast .
To 15 mph.
That's what's helping keep some
of the humidity in place.
Actual temperature right now 96n
Fort Worth, 97 in Mineral Wells,
94 in Granbury.
But if you look across our eastern counties,
we're talking mid 80s.
The reason there's such a big
difference is because the humidy
is slightly lower anywhere West
of the Metroplex,
so temperatures tend to climb aa
faster rate when air is slightly drier.
The heat index right now 107 in Fort Worth,
104 in Mineral Wells, 103 in Granbury.
About 100 for Greenville and An,
95 and McKinney.
Today, mostly sunny and just plain hot 103.
It'll feel like the temperature
can be up to 110.
We're going to notice that our
temperature every afternoon climbs into
the triple digits at least through Friday.
I'll bring you those numbers
in just a few moments,
Cleo.
All right. Thanks, dear Mariel.
Her cod is warning a possible rd
demand today as we all try and stay cool
issuing a weather watch through Friday.
Our Megan Mitchell is watching e
power grid for us and has some w
details on how cities are helping Megan.
Yeah, Cleo, I think this is a
cycle that we might have to get
used to this summer because.
There is such a demand and it io
hot out there that we are monitg
the Texas power grid right here.
And I know this kind of looks le
a bunch of different colors lin.
Let me break it down for you.
So we got of course this turquoe
color and this is throughout the day,
this is the demand and supply tt
they expect that turquoise beine
demand and then they have the sy
that's where that purple line i.
And you can see around 4:00 PM is what
we're really looking at here bee
that's where those lines get re,
really close.
When they get close enough
or cut could issue.
People to voluntarily turn off their power,
maybe turn off that A/C for a le
bit or their fans, anything like that.
That's we're monitoring today.
Let's look at the reserves.
So these are the operating rese,
6400 megawatts, that's good right now,
normal. We're in the green, rig?
But if you take a look over
here at the fuel mixes,
you can see that almost
half of it is natural gas.
So we have quite a bit to spare.
One thing that you should keep in mind
when looking at all of these numbers is
that this 64101 MW can power 200 homes.
So we've got a lot here.
We're good to go for now,
but of course keep this in
mind throughout the day.
This was not the first weather watch that
was issued by IRCOT this month though,
because our first one was last .
It actually led to a call for voluntary
conservation just last Tuesday.
That lowered the demand at the ,
so it helped us avoid.
That most serious condition,
which is when there is an emergency alert
that leads us to those controlled outages,
those rolling blackouts staying cool,
obviously so important as well.
So on Sunday,
there were 6911 heat calls,
there were four people hospitalized in Dallas
and there were even more in Fort Worth.
Take a listen to this,
some new information within thet
couple hours here is that theree
11 heat calls and there were six
people hospitalized in that cit.
And so to help folks who need i,
the city of Dallas.
Is actually going to be having t
they called their Beat the Heat program.
They're going to announce it tomorrow.
Think places where you can get ,
places where you can get different elements
to cool yourself or your family.
Also cooling centers.
And they're also going to give
information in this program
about how we can save some powe.
We'll have more on that throughout the day.
We'll be watching the squid for you, Cleo.
And so of course we'll be back
here and we'll be monitoring it.