Dallas-Fort Worth weather

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Talk about a "wild week of weather!" Winter unleashed its fury in the Metroplex last week, and here are some weather headlines and graphics from that storm:

Wild Weather Week Headlines

• Freezing rain and wintry mix swept through the Metroplex early Tuesday morning, bringing about an inch of ice to the ground and making travel “treacherous if not impossible.”
• Following the dramatic front, temperatures remained below freezing for a little over 100 hours (early Tuesday morning to late Saturday morning).
• Due to the icy road conditions and below-freezing temperatures, most Metroplex schools remained closed for four consecutive days.
• Wind speeds (not gusts) on Tuesday were as high as 36 mph and on Wednesday as high as 24 mph, causing wind chills at times to be below zero. (The lowest wind chill temperature on Tuesday was -1°F and -5°F on Wednesday.)
• Wednesday was the coldest day in Dallas since February 1989. The high only reached 20°F, and that was at 10:40 at night!
• Both rolling and unexpected blackouts left a great deal of the city without power on Wednesday.
• A “light dusting” to “less than one inch” of snow turned out to be about a half a foot on Friday when a snow burst delivered a great deal of snow to an already iced-out city.
• Friday's Snow caused many flight delays at DFW Airport and closed Dallas Love Field for some time.
• Thawing ice on the top of Cowboy's Stadium (the site of Super Bowl XLV) injured as many as seven workers Friday afternoon.

Images/Graphics


The ruler shows four inches of snow from Friday all sitting over a little less than an inch of ice from Tuesday.


How cold were temperatures during this "cold snap?" Check above.


As I mentioned earlier, only in Texas can temperatures be so nice one day and then drastically take a turn for the worst the next few. The graphic above shows how much of a roller coaster the temperatures were.

And what's the worst part? There's more of this coming on Wednesday...

[WeatherWitness]

Deja vu? Or maybe just a big hype? Another winter storm is on its way to the Metroplex. The forecast graphics are below. What's really a deja vu is that the conditions and temperature drops are pretty much the same as last week.


WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST WEDNESDAY
NEW! WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST WEDNESDAY












Great news! As you can see above, a big difference is that this winter storm won't be lasting for very long. The 60s are coming by the weekend!

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In Dallas, February could be considered the wackiest weather month. The statement "If you don't like the weather today, just wait until tomorrow" easily applies to February weather in Dallas. Here is a graphic showing the drastic temperature swing for the month.

[phw115wvwx]

In Dallas, February could be considered the wackiest weather month. The statement "If you don't like the weather today, just wait until tomorrow" easily applies to February weather in Dallas. Here is a graphic showing the drastic temperature swing for the month.

It was a very strange transition to watch throughout the country as winter progressed.  By the way, that phrase you mentioned is more like this to me, "If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes."

[WeatherWitness]

Where the heck did spring go?


Daily high temp: Sunday, March 27
51°F
2 degrees BELOW the COLDEST average high for the area on January 6-13

Daily high temp: Monday, March 28
60°F
Average high for February 13-15 or November 29-December 2

Daily high temp: Tuesday, March 29
55°F
Average high for January 24-28 or December 21-26


I'm tired of these temperature swings.

[WeatherWitness]

APRIL HEATWAVE!
Well, I thought for sure I was going to have to post a "record high" graphic for the past couple of days, but we didn't quite make the record. However, hot temperatures were still here; on Monday and Tuesday of this week, the DFW metroplex saw its first 90 degree days of the year.



A big change is in order for today. Yesterday's severe storms cooled things down quite a bit. Today's high was 70° at 1:00AM. This afternoon's temperatures have stayed steady around 63°.

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WINTER RETURNS...BUT IT'S MAY!!!
A strong cold front from the north has brought VERY unseasonable temperatures to the Metroplex.

NORMALS
HIGH: 80°F
LOW: 59°F











RECORD LOW FOR MAY 2
44°F (1978)

RECORD LOW FOR MAY 3
41°F (1954)

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DFW RAINFALL UPDATE
Data valid as of May 2, 2011

24-hour total: 2.00 inches

Month-to-date total: 2.65 inches
NORMAL month-to-date total: 0.30 inches

Year-to-date total: 7.70 inches
NORMAL year-to-date total: 10.83 inches
(Departure from normal: -3.13 inches)


All data provided by the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, Texas

[WeatherWitness]

MAY 2011 HIGHS AND LOWS
We certainly had some temperature swings this month. From highs in the low 50s to start the month to highs near the century mark at the end, I think we got a little taste of every season in just one month!

5/1: 72° / 46°
5/2: 53° / 46°*
5/3: 70° / 43°
5/4: 75° / 48°
5/5: 78° / 56°
5/6: 84° / 52°
5/7: 90° / 65°
5/8: 92° / 70°
5/9: 93° / 73°
5/10: 87° / 70°
5/11: 82° / 63°
5/12: 83° / 62°
5/13: 76° / 61°
5/14: 71° / 52°
5/15: 74° / 51°
5/16: 74° / 53°
5/17: 82° / 55°
5/18: 86° / 66°
5/19: 82° / 71°
5/20: 87° / 66°
5/21: 88° / 61°
5/22: 91° / 66°
5/23: 88° / 70°
5/24: 91° / 73°
5/25: 92° / 73°
5/26: 81° / 59°
5/27: 95° / 64°
5/28: 97° / 75°
5/29: 95° / 73°
5/30: 93° / 75°
5/31: 92° / 74°

*53° was a record low maximum temperature for May 2. The previous record was 57° set in 1994.


MAY 2011 RAINFALL UPDATE
The Metroplex had a LOT of rain and severe weather this month. Unfortunately, we are still in a deficit, but it is not as bad.

Month-to-date total: 7.95 inches
NORMAL month-to-date total: 5.15 inches
(Departure from normal: +2.80 inches)

Year-to-date total: 13.00 inches
NORMAL year-to-date total: 15.68 inches
(Departure from normal: -2.68 inches)


IS IT THE APOCALYPSE?
This report is found on weather.com for May 23, 2011 at DFW Intl. Airport. I don't remember such a thing!

[nickosarus2008]

I'm getting tired of the unrelenting heat heat here in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.  We really need the rain, plus I'm tired of seeing an empty radar screen on Intellistar. :]



I'm hoping that chance of rain is going to be abundant.

Image courtesy of Weather.com

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[Zach]

7 Day Forecast

[nickosarus2008]

Hope this chance of rain is decent, :]