The Brief
- A brief cold front brought rainfall to North Texas—snapping a dry streak at DFW Airport—but was insufficient to alleviate regional drought conditions.
- High pressure is rebuilding, bringing clear skies, an air quality alert, and above-average temperatures in the mid-to-upper 90s for the rest of the week.
- Area lakes remain significantly below conservation capacity, with meteorologists noting that weeks of sustained rainfall will be required to break the drought.
DALLAS – Mother Nature may have flipped the calendar to fall, but North Texas heat and drought conditions are sticking around.
A weak cold front brought a brief reprieve and some measurable moisture to parts of the region on Monday—including 1.01 inches at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport that broke a recent dry streak—but it won’t be enough to pull the area out of its ongoing drought.
High pressure is building back into the region, bringing mostly clear skies, light north-northeast winds up to 12 mph, and another round of high temperatures in the mid-to-upper 90s.…