If nothing is done address climate change, says a new study commissioned by some really rich people and some ex-politicians, Texas is going be practically unlivable by the time we get to the back half of the 21st century. Average temperatures will increase, the study says, leading to more than…
The heaviest rain from Tropical Storm Bill is now expected to arrive in Dallas on Wednesday, rather than overnight Tuesday, as was originally forecast. The biggest risk for flooding, the most likely severe weather from Bill, will happen days after the rain, Rocky Vaz with the Dallas Office of Emergency…
Texas has suffered through years with basically no rain. As my West Texas-dwelling grandmother was fond of telling my drought-bemoaning grandfather, it shouldn’t be a surprise. After all, she’d say, we live in the middle of the desert. In May though, across the state and in Dallas specifically, the seemingly…
Three weeks ago, we told you that Texas’ almost three years long drought was finally, thankfully, breaking. The latest numbers released by the U.S. Drought Monitor Thursday show that, save for a couple of areas of limited dry areas in West Texas and the Panhandle, Texas isn’t even experiencing any…
Thanks to the “large-scale” rains in the last week, the severe drought that’s consumed Texas for the better part of three years has been largely slaked, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Texas no longer has any areas that are classified as “D4” by the monitor. D4 or exceptional drought…
As of 2:10 p.m., it’s officially springtime in North Texas. The National Weather Service has issued its first 2015 tornado watch for Dallas County…
Dear Dallas Weather: Stop trying to be Seattle. If we wanted to live in Seattle, we’d buy a train, fill it with enough Bob Armstrong queso to last us a lifetime and drive it there. But we don’t want that. We want to live in Dallas: the land of patio…
Sure, you know it’s raining and today has a general crapturdness about it, weather-wise. But what does the rest of the week have in store? We’re so glad you asked. We’ve got the best 5-day forecast in Dallas for you, right here. Behold: Your 5-day forecast as Movie Villains…
Yesterday, it rained on and off for the whole day. And today, it appears that the rain is here to stay all day. Look for that text about your kid’s school closing. It’s only a matter of time. Upon hearing that school districts were considering closing early due to “heavy…
If the National Weather Service is to be believed, Dallas will receive further proof that climate change is a lie created, just like the internet, by former vice president Al Gore. After an arctic front moves through North Texas overnight Tuesday, rapidly dropping temperatures will be accompanied by freezing rain,…
Lest you have any illusions about Dallasites’ becoming less car dependent or more adept at driving in winter weather, here’s the Google traffic map for the city as of about noon (the red is bad, very, very, bad). And heaven forbid you think about taking an Uber. As of writing,…
As foretold by Saint Delkus the Wise’ Monday prophecy, Dallas is going to get some more shitty weather, starting this morning. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for most of North Texas, including Dallas County, that predicts up to two inches of snow on Friday, then…
Don’t say we didn’t warn you. WFAA weather personality Pete Delkus, in the form of his odd new smoking-jacket and cigar accessorized avatar, has announced what we’ve known for quite some time. He can, and does, control the weather.Looks like tomorrow could be another snow day kiddies! I’ll let you…
Listen. This is Texas. The roads in this state should not look like the time we accidentally left the freezer open all weekend, and returned only to close it and look away, hoping for the best. The best is not what happened, though — it was instead the very worst…
All of the schools are closed. You find yourself stuck at home with your own children. They want to go outside and run in the sleet, but you have been told by various important weather outlets that #SLEETSHOW2015 is no joke, and that going outside can only mean certain death…
Dallas’ most favored weather oracle, Saint Delkus the Wise, brings news that later this week North Texas shall again be the object of God’s wrath. Yes, later this week, after having been given the briefest of respites following the plague of #sleetshow2015, Dallas will again face the trauma of weather…
Local weather forecasters including Pete Delkus, CBS11Larry, and your mama predicted that sleet would rain down upon us all last night, and it sure did. (For my fellow Native Texans, “sleet,” of course, in meteorological terms is the petulant baby that is created when snow and rain do The Nasty.)…
Twitter has informed Unfair Park that today is National Weather Person day. In deference to local weather god Pete Delkus, we’re celebrating by remembering a year ago tomorrow, when we all laughed at a storm shaped like a dick. Total snow for DFW still expected around 1″. Snow is light/fluffy…
Punxsutawney Phil (whose full name, for the record, is Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators and Weather Prophet Extraordinary) has been predicting the weather since Groundhog Day began in 1886. His predictions are simple and straightforward: It’s either six more weeks of winter, or we’re…
Yes, tomorrow would be the perfect time to put the finishing touches on that ark you’ve been building for this exact circumstance, because come Monday we will all be living the reality Kevin Costner so boldly hinted at in his magnum opus Waterworld…
It’s on the way!! RT @RyanMaue: Next week’s Arctic blast will threaten 41 States and 250,179,444 people pic.twitter.com/MR78ssJVVL— Pete Delkus (@wfaaweather) November 6, 2014 Suck it, boring sunny weather. Now we have something to live in fear of. The chaos of a Dallas winter begins again in earnest next week,…
So, Dallas, that was the summer of our lifetimes. Today marks the day where average temperatures begin to drop, continuing their inevitable decline towards whatever horrors Winter 2014 has in store for us. Let’s not focus on the inevitable entombment of Dallas in ice quite yet, though. Let’s think to…
