Alright, so we've talked about
water conservation and the drought,
but look at these pictures you got
to come to your screen to see this.
This is Lake Travis down in Austin.
Wait, really, it doesn't normally
look like that. That's for sure.
Wow, super dry, very low.
The water line dropped so much
you can see it's just clearly
visible on the Mansfield Dam.
Oh my goodness, it's bad stuff.
You know, that is
we talked about it here in North Texas.
The drought bad? It's the whole state.
I mean most of the state needs
about a foot of rain to catch up,
but it's just nothing,
nothing, insight right now.
It's all around the state,
but it's just not coming through.
Yeah, yeah, it's exactly right. Yeah nothing.
And that's a real typical summertime pattern.
The problem is, we locked into this way
too soon, and I remember in early kind
of like the late spring early summer,
saying like if we don't get rain now we're
going to be in serious trouble because we
don't really get rain this time of year.
So I want to start with the drought map.
This is the drought monitor this
will update tomorrow as well.
It's exceptional drought for a
good portion of North Texas.
That's the highest level you can get.
The red areas extreme drought and outside
of that it's severe and moderate,
so it's bad and look at the whole
state of Texas.
Down into the Hill Country,
you see widespread,
exceptional drought here from San Antonio.
He said, West of Austin Austin itself an
extreme drought out toward the Panhandle.
You still see some exceptional
and extreme drought.
Like I said to this too,
I said there's a second ago 12 to
15 inches of rain to completely
end the drought for most of Texas.
That's a lot of catching up to do,
and we're not the only ones too.
You go out West.
They're seeing really bad drought,
so you've probably seen some pictures
of Lake Mead out near Vegas.
See the droughts really bad there too.
You know.
Lucky enough,
there's actually been some good rain
happening in parts of the desert southwest.
We'll show you that in a second,
but I want to remind people because of
the drought conditions, the hot temps.
The grass is so dry,
grass fires can ignite very easily,
and because it's going to be
breezy over the next several days,
they will spread quickly to see.
Gotta take that very, very seriously.
Be careful with any just every county
in North Texas is under a burn ban.
Do everything you can to prevent that.
90 degrees right now winds out
of the South at 14 miles an hour.
Another heat advisory today that
will start in 19 minutes.
If I did my math correctly and that's
all of North Texas 103 to 106 for most
of the area with heat index values up to 107.
Same thing applies tomorrow afternoon,
102 in Corsicana.
102 in Hillsboro,
103 in Mineral Wells Graham 103 a
101 in Sulphur Springs in Paris
and one O 2 in Terra.
104 for the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth,
and you'll see.
It's the same stuff.
I mean,
we may take a little dip here.
Friday and Saturday 1:01 Friday,
Saturday 100 heat index values a few degrees
warmer than the actual air temperature.
When you factor in the humidity,
we need rain.
We're not going to see a significant chance,
at least over the next 7 to 10 days.
But I said there's some rain
out in the desert southwest.
They're drought stricken there.
Rain in the upper Midwest too.
Here we are dry.
We do have at least a
small chance of rain Friday and Saturday.
It's isolated stuff, 10 percent,
20% coverage for the Dallas Fort Worth
area and this light shaded green.
The darker shaded green, maybe 3040%.
That's Friday and Saturday.
Some more scattered rain in the forecast
than beyond the 10 beyond this weekend.
Rather, in the 10 day forecast,
you'll see there's another chance next week,
Tuesday, Wednesday.
Right now 10% my hope.
As we get more data in, my hope is
that we can increase the rain chance,
drop the temperature a little bit.
You may remember this scenario last week.
Another boundary is going to kind of
seep this into the region and we hope
that it goes farther South this time.
Right now,
10% rain chances and highs in
the upper nineties 98 degrees.
On Thursday and then Friday 99
you know that's my hope too.
Yes, wish she pursued rain chances
we we really do thanks so much Jesse.