Texas weather changes coming: Saharan dust and high pressure arrive Thursday

The weather across Texas over the past several days has been hectic, to say the least. Flooding devastated the Hill Country over the Fourth of July weekend, and things really haven’t settled down since.

Daily showers and thunderstorms have led to isolated flash flooding throughout the state this week, including in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Houston and even in parts of West Texas. Thankfully, a shift in the weather pattern is arriving Thursday and it will mean a relatively rain-free forecast for much of Texas.

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The weather pattern

Here’s what’s happening in the atmosphere. First of all, a ridge of high pressure is strengthening over the desert Southwest. That, along with a weak high pressure system in the eastern Gulf of Mexico will raise the pressure slightly across Texas, leading to far lower rain chances…

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