Dallas residents are bracing for a week of typically hot Texan summer weather, with the National Weather Service predicting sunny skies and climbing temperatures reaching near 96 degrees today. According to the National Weather Service, locals can expect heat index values to soar as high as 101, while gusty south winds sweep through at 15 mph and could hit gusts up to 25 mph.
As the sun dips tonight, the skies will mostly clear, but the warmth lingers with lows hovering around 76 degrees, the south winds persistently in the mix with similar gusts making their presence known. The weekend brings a slight shift in the pattern, Saturday promises mostly sunny weather yet with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms cropping up post 1 pm, the high stays near 94 with heat index values stubbornly fixated around 101.
Daylight's end on Saturday keeps the possibility of storms, clinging to a 30 percent likelihood, mainly after the darkness claims the hour of 1 am. The evening's atmosphere mostly cloudy and lows maintaining the static consistency of a 76-degree embrace, while the south wind eases down to a breezy 5 to 10 mph whisper. Sunday ups the ante with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms during a day marked by more clouds than sun, and temperatures peaking near 93, followed by a mildly stormy night at 20 percent preciptiation chances before the lately frequent hour of 1am.
Dallas enters Monday with an identical 20 percent shot of rain before the afternoon arrives, thereafter the sun wrestles through partly sunny skies to push temperatures near 96 degrees, the gentle southern wind barely ruffling leaves between 5 to 10 mph. Forecasts for Tuesday and beyond predict an escalation of the dry heat, with highs nearing 97 on Tuesday and inching closer to the century mark by midweek, a hot Wednesday with thermometers expected to indicate a near 99 degrees under a mostly unobstructed canopy of blue.
