Significant rain chances continue for North Texas
NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) - After almost three weeks of dry weather, it was another day of generous rain across North Texas.
We're on day two of the rain with at least five more to go. This could be the longest stretch of measurable rain at DFW this year.
It stayed in the 70s all day because of the several rounds of rain that moved over the metroplex. What is crazy about that is that the morning started in the 70s. For the second morning in a row, DFW broke a record for a warm morning.
We expect scattered storms to continue until midnight before dying out.
Wednesday looks to offer up more rain. We should just have clouds and a few passing showers, a 20% chance, during the morning commute through most of the afternoon.
Highs should reach into the low 80s. We'll be watching a round of heavy rain moving in from the west. It should arrive in the metroplex just as the evening commute gets underway.
Wednesday night the heaviest rain arrives. There could be several rounds and isolated flash flooding is possible.
There are at least two more waves of rain ahead. One arrives late Friday and goes into the evening, which means Friday night football is looking wet for many of the games in North Texas.
The second wave arrives by Sunday afternoon and should be clear of us by Monday mid-day.
Expect most areas to end up with 2"-3" of rain between Tuesday evening to the end of the weekend.
After all this rain, get ready for our first real blast of cold air. It'll arrive behind a cold front that sweeps across late Sunday/early Monday.
Highs on Monday and Tuesday (Halloween) look to be only in the 50s on both days. These will be the coldest days since last Spring.
Right now, Halloween looks dry but chilly. This could change, the long-range models are not in agreement right now. We'll keep you posted.
