Dan’s Weather Dialogue

A tropical-like air mass continues to spread northward into North Texas as Tropical Storm Dolly crawls through Deep South Texas. While most of North Texas was rain-free today, there is some hope for a bit of drought relief for parts of North Texas on Thursday.  Southern areas such as Stephenvile, Meridian, Hillsboro, and Corsicana will stand a little better chance (30%) of seeing an afternoon or evening shower or thunderstorm. Those rain chances diminish to no better than 20% in the immediate DFW area, and then quickly fall to near zero north of Denton and McKinney. Not the best of news, but at least it's a chance of rain. While we continue to keep our fingers crossed for some tropical downpours, folks down in the Rio Grande Valley are hoping for just the opposite. City officials in Cameron County are concerned the levees may not withstand the 10-20 inches of rain expected in the next 24 hours. The last time a hurricane took a similar track through Deep South Texas was in 1967...Hurricane Beulah devastated the Rio Grande Valley.  Prior to this month, South Texas was experiencing severe drought conditions. By tomorrow, there will likely be widespread flooding. It's kind of cruel how weather works sometimes.