It’s finally time to dry out across North Texas this week, although a few isolated showers may try to sneak in from the south today and from the west-southwest tomorrow. Most of the activity tomorrow should remain west of I-35W.
The big story continues to be the record rainfall we received yesterday. More than 3.5 inches of rain fell at DFW Airport, breaking the old daily record of 3.33 inches that was set back in 1989. We’ve now built up a rainfall surplus of more than 6 inches for the month of June, and it’s only the 8th day of the month. It’s also the first time in several months that DFW Airport has been running a surplus in rainfall, now sitting more than 2 inches above average. That’s great news as we head into some of our climatologically driest months of the year.
The weather story this week will be the return of summer heat. High temperatures will climb into the low to mid-90s today and remain there through at least Friday. Heat index values should generally top out around 100 to 103 degrees each afternoon. Heat advisories typically require heat index values of 105 degrees or higher for at least two consecutive days, and at this point it appears we’ll stay just below that threshold…