Rich tropical moisture continues to sweep north into Texas and Louisiana only worsening the widespread flood situation. Many TX/LA cities are well above their normal rainfall for the whole of June and we’re only 5 days into the month.

Surrounding the fire hose continuing to plague the S Plains, an unusually strong, drought enhanced hot dome has driven record early 100s to the Rockies and N Plains and reaching all the way to Manitoba.

The 100s first popped up over the Desert Southwest where here we observed Death Valley, CA’s first 120-degrees of the year and record heat across several SW cities.

The heat has lifted northward and around the cool, rainy cut off low over Texas.

Probably one of the most extreme examples of just how much rain has fallen over Texas, take McAllen where over 7 INCHES of rain has fallen in just the first 5 days of the month. That’s 3 TIMES the average for the entire month of June!

All that rain pounding Texas and Louisiana has had a significant influence on temperature and where it’s become very dry, you fry!

Month-to-date!

Some interesting heat records over recent days….

Following a maximum of 120 degrees, Death Valley, CA (Furnace Creek) only fell to 97 degrees for a minimum, this is an early June record for North America.

Las Vegas set a daily high with 108 degrees.

Salt Lake City, UT observed not only a daily record yesterday but earliest 100-degrees on record surpassing the previous record by 1-day set just last year.

Bismarck, ND set a new daily record of 105 degrees and witnessed it’s 2nd earliest 100.

Gretna, Manitoba reached 41.6C. A first 40C in Manitoba since 1989 and warmest for the province since 1988.

What a difference from one Saturday to the next over the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic.