After hours of heavy rain slammed parts of Texas, another burst of cooler northern air is moving toward the state. As major Texas metros continue to deal with heavy rain and severe weather from the last rare summer cold front, forecasters say the next system will drastically drop temperatures and raise storm chances again.
A bit of early-summer temperature whiplash is expected this week. Just as temperatures begin to climb back up and the sun begins to shine again on Wednesday, June 17, the front will send temperatures plummeting by more than 40 degrees overnight.
The front is expected to cross the Texas-Oklahoma border by Wednesday evening. According to the National Weather Service Amarillo office’s weather outlook, temperatures will nosedive from a scorching 101 degrees on Wednesday afternoon to a much cooler 61 degrees that night…