Warm and Dry Conditions Headed to North Texas This Week

The weather in North Texas this week should be warm and dry, with low rain chances returning over the weekend and into next week.

The National Weather Service Fort Worth/Dallas issued a bulletin about the forecast on Monday afternoon. According to the bulletin, temperatures will climb into the upper 80s and 90s by mid to late week.

Breezy afternoon conditions are expected both Thursday and Friday. Low rain chances may return to the region next weekend and into next week.

According to a U.S. Drought Monitor report from May 7, drought conditions improved over the past months across North and Central Texas. That is in large part to a much wetter April, when many locations picked up more than 4 inches of rainfall.

Broad portions of the region ended April at roughly 150-200% of normal precipitation. That rainfall translated into meaningful, and in some areas significant, drought improvement across much of the DFW Metroplex, where many locations are no longer in drought.

Even so, the drought was not completely erased. Extreme Drought (D3) conditions continue to exist across portions of East Texas, and lingering pockets of more significant dryness remain in places that missed out on the highest rainfall totals.

The report states that May offers another favorable window for improvement as May is climatologically the wettest month of the year across North and Central Texas. That trend is apparently supported by the Climate Prediction Center's May outlook, which leans toward above-normal precipitation across parts of the state.

That could mean further drought removal or improvement across much of the region. However, not all areas are expected to recover at the same pace, and parts of the Red River vicinity may see drought linger a bit longer than areas farther south and west.