Today’s thunderstorm chances are rapidly diminishing as storms march eastward along with the dryline and cold front close behind. Strong, westerly, downsloping winds are increasing behind the dryline  as the low pressure system deepens as it marches eastward across the central Plains. These strong downsloping winds will help temperatures soar to near record levels today. The record high temperature for today at DFW is 85°F set in 1911. Forecast highs were raised a bit after temperatures soared to the forecasted high of 83°F from this morning’s issuance. Winds will gust to near 35 mph behind the dryline making for a quite windy afternoon. Our winds will switch to the northwest this evening where they should decouple a bit after sunset. The much drier air will allow temperatures to cool efficiently this evening with overnight lows expected in the 40s area wide. We should be much cooler tomorrow with highs only reaching the mid to upper 60s.

We are still watching a southern stream system that could affect our weather as early as Saturday night with more chances of showers and thunderstorms, especially on Sunday and Monday. An even stronger system may be on tap for later next week.