Oklahoma City, then Houston and now Dallas falls victim to an overnight deluge which forces an emergency and multiple major road closures. As much as 3-6 inches of rain fell over the Metroplex and surrounding area between midnight and 6-7am this morning. The latest in a series of flash flood events this month and part of the much bigger regionwide deluge forced by El Nino.
Rain totals in and around Dallas-Ft Worth in just 24 HOURS.
Last 7 days!
May 2015 will be long remembered on the Southern Plains as a remarkably wet, historic month where countless rainfall records or not just broken but drowned…
TOP IMAGE CREDIT: Port Authority
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The Southern Plains goes from near dust bowl over the last 4 long years to water world within a matter of weeks. That’s often the case in this extreme climatic region. There’s no in between. It goes from one extreme to the other. For some, it’s close to 30 inches in 30 days. Recent years have seen as little as 10 inches in an entire 365 day period so it’s like 2-3 years worth of rain within 30 days.
Incredible rainfall totals from May 1-28.
Credit: CNN Weather
While the Southern Plains continues to get slammed by flash flooding, the heat continues to sweat the East Coast with widespread upper 80s to low 90s but CHANGE IS ON THE WAY. The frontal boundary, part responsible for the overnight deluge in Dallas will move east through this weekend, allowing Texas to dry out while a 10-20 degree temp drop is on the way for the East Coast between Sunday and Monday.
ECMWF 500mb height anomaly for tomorrow.
2m temps/anomaly difference between tomorrow afternoon and Monday afternoon is striking over the Northeast
As for California and Southwest, well it’s heating up as you’d expect for early June!
Credit: CNN Weather
ECMWF surface shows the eastward push of the front that will bring drier weather into Texas while rain and storms cut the heat and humidity between Florida and Maine.
Heaviest precip shifts east next 7 days.
See today’s video for the latest discussion. Will have more tomorrow.
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