there earlier and she said the d
cover helped just a little bit.
It did, yeah. And the cloud covs
already thinning out, unfortuna.
But it does make a lot of
difference when you're in the
shade versus directly in the su.
So definitely make sure to findt
shade if you are heading out to Dollar
Day and make sure to hydrate to.
I know we say it over and over again,
but it's just so important.
Especially when we have
heat alerts like this one,
we do have an excessive heat warning.
And we talked about this.
It was in place yesterday.
It'll be in place today.
It does include all of North
Texas in a few surrounding area.
This extends into Oklahoma, Arkansas,
Louisiana and into Central Texa.
This is for heat index
values between 1:05 to 1:14.
It's in place until tonight at .
I am expecting our heat alerts
to continue into tomorrow.
The National Weather Service will announce
that at some point this afterno.
OK.
So we do have that cloud cover overhead.
Again,
it's going to thin out for the afternoon.
So keep that in mind.
Don't count on the cloud cover,
91 degrees right now in Denton,
but it actually feels like
103 in downtown Dallas.
We still see a little bit of tht
cloud cover, 87 degrees at DFW,
but it feels like 96.
That heat index will likely be in the triple
digits here within the next hour or two.
The wind stays S at 10 to 20 mp,
and that S wind is helping keep some of
this heat in place across North Texas today.
Like that cloud cover is
already thinning out.
I am expecting those temperaturs
to climb rather quickly,
98 degrees by 1.
About 103,
close to three in the afternoon,
104 degrees around 5:00 and yesterday
hottest day of the year so far
with a high of 105 at DFW airpo.
I think we get very close to it.
Today will likely add our eighth triple
digit heat day of the year at D.
Today 106 expected in Fort in Fort Worth,
104 in Dallas about 1:05
and Denton 103 in McKinney.
Just about anywhere you look yoe
going to see the triple digits n
our charts for this afternoon.
Some of our western locations anywhere
from Wise Parker County to the ,
I'm expecting temperatures to be
closer to 105106 even up to 108.
Look at Graham for this afterno,
that's where the air is slightly drier,
but it doesn't matter because te
heat index will still be close
to about 110 anywhere you look.
West of the Metroplex and in the
Metroplex close to about one 12113 up to 114.
That's why that excessive heat
warning is in place.
We also have a an elevated fire danger.
This does include our western
counties pretty much West of
the I-35 corridor counties,
Western Tarrant County into Par,
Polopinto county,
Wise County as well and this is
because of the triple digits.
So we have that high heat in pl.
We have dry fuels in place.
We still have some very dry
vegetation and our winds
that are out of.
The South pretty breezy at time.
We are expecting any fire that
does start to spread quickly,
so avoid any outdoor burning.
Let's just avoid that altogether
for today and tomorrow.
The high heat continues Thursda,
Friday, Saturday, all triple di.
The heat index close to about
1:10 for Friday, Saturday,
small break on Sunday before the
triple digits return early next week.
That small break happens
for a couple of reasons.
So let's talk about that.
That Ridge of high pressure
that's responsible for the heat
that sits over West TX right no.
And because of where it's sitti,
it puts us in a northwest flow.
So any storms that develop
in portions of the Panhandle
get pushed into North Texas.
That's why we saw rain this mor.
It's likely why we'll see a few storms
around the Red River tomorrow morning
and why we also see that potentl
for rain very early on Sunday.
So on Sunday we see this Ridge t
off towards the West just a tad.
It's going to allow us to see
a very weak front approach the
Red River and that could bring
us some rain again early Sunday.
It's not going to be a lot,
it's only about 20% coverage,
but it does help keep some cloud cover
in the area and in turn keeps u.
With the triple digit mark,
but that's only for Sunday.
Triple digits back through next
week we'll be back.