Storms likely to impact your drive home Friday afternoon, evening
NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) — The CBS News Texas First Alert Weather team is tracking the potential for strong-to-severe storms in parts of North Texas Friday afternoon and evening.
A cold front will slide through the area from the northwest early this afternoon—sometime after 2 or 3 p.m. North Texas will likely see some scattered storms developing ahead of the front from west to east. In fact, some of these storms will likely impact part of your afternoon/evening commute home.
Storms aren't expected everywhere in North Texas today. The more significant threat for areas closer to the metroplex will be large hail. These storms do seem to be more isolated to scattered, but we'll have to watch after 3 PM through about 7 PM for any of these cells to move through parts of Tarrant, Dallas, and Collin counties.
Storms are already starting to initiate south and west of the metroplex, in Comanche and Hamilton counties, as of 1:30 PM Friday. These storms will track east/northeast, impacting areas close to and especially south of I-20.
We expect the storms to become more scattered heading into the early evening, but threats will still be there for large hail and damaging winds. The tornado threat will likely be farther south.
But don't let your guard down.
A few showers and isolated storms are likely behind the front as an area of low pressure tracks just north of North Texas, even after midnight and into early Saturday morning.
High temperatures will be in the upper 70s to near 80 in a few spots this afternoon. Overnight temperatures will be in the low 50s.
On Saturday, North Texas will likely have some lingering showers during the morning hours as low pressure spins to the northeast. Rain chances are around 30%. Then, we'll see gradual clearing skies.
Some showers, though, may linger for eastern parts of North Texas into the afternoon, so keep that in mind. Highs will be in the upper 60s with gusty winds from the northwest. These gusts could be as high as 30-35 mph.
For Sunday, we'll see sunny skies and highs in the upper 70s, and next week we'll have highs in the upper 70s and lower 80s.
Storm chances, though, increase late next week on Thursday.
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