Last week’s heat wave wasn’t the beginning, but it wasn’t the end, either. Dallas has seen sustained extreme heat before, notably in the summers of 1980 and 2011, but the city could see months of temperatures well above 100 degrees if Texas, the U.S. and the rest of the world…
For the fifth consecutive day, temperatures at DFW Airport easily cracked 100 degrees Wednesday, topping out at 106 just after 5 p.m. As the relentless heat pummeled North Texas, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the nonprofit that oversees 90 percent of Texas’ electric grid, felt the stress as well…
A woman scorned? Hah. Texas laughs at scorned women because when it comes to hellish fury, no woman alive can hold a candle to a dry Texas summer. Speaking of candles, Texans might not need to keep them handy this season; the state’s electricity supply should be able to handle…
Forget the solar eclipse and get ready for the biggest, most beautiful and elegant moon of the last 156 years, one that’s only appropriate for the night after President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address. Early tomorrow morning, the Texas sky will play host to three phenomena that…
Sometime this afternoon, snow, or, worse, wintry mix, will descend on DFW for the second time in less than a week. North Texas’ supplications to Dallas’ weather deity and WFAA meteorologist Pete Delkus have gone unheard, and not for the first time. This time, the winter weather advisory, government speak…
Any minute now, Dallas will finally get its first significant frozen precipitation this winter. While “accumulation of snow [is] not guaranteed for everyone,” according to Dallas weather god and WFAA meteorologist Pete Delkus, Dallas is under a winter weather advisory beginning at 2 p.m, despite temperatures having been near 60…
Despite Monday’s 70-something degree respite, the first week of November has been among the hottest in Dallas’ recorded history. Three times, temperatures have cracked 90 degrees at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Before this year, 89 was the highest Dallas’ mercury had ever reached in November. According the National Weather Service,…
After almost a week of waiting and preparation, the city of Dallas finally, started receiving a steady stream of evacuees from the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on Thursday night and Friday. The travelers aren’t coming from Houston, according to Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Instead, they’re coming to North Texas from flooded-out southeast…
Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey has brought destruction that federal, state and local governments have not been able top keep up with. Private citizens, non-profits and businesses have sprung into action, spurred by the now-ubiquitous “Texas Strong” rallying cry that swept in with the storm. Other, less noble creatures have…
Along with the devastating, still largely unknown human and property costs of Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey on the Texas coast, the state’s dogs and cats have also born the brunt of the storm. Some have been left behind by owners, forced to fend for themselves as the rains rolled…
“I’m tired of running from hurricanes,” storm evacuee Daphne Griffin says. Griffin and her family linger this Monday afternoon outside the Walnut Hill Recreation Center on Midway Road in Dallas. She’s seeking shelter from Hurricane Harvey while experiencing flashbacks of her run-ins with Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ike. Like many…
Sometime late Friday or very early Saturday, a massive weather system named Harvey, possibly a tropical storm but more likely a hurricane, is going to hit southeast Texas. While it appears North Texas will avoid the brunt of the winds, rainfall and flooding expected, Harvey is still going to have…
Wednesday afternoon, the National Weather Service confirmed that two tornadoes struck North Texas in the midst of Tuesday night’s damaging winds and rain in North Texas. The first, labeled an EF0 tornado by the NWS, which means it featured winds of 65 to 85 mph, hit North Fort Worth, Keller…
Two-year-old Boi Sang died on Sunday afternoon. He’d been left in his parent’s Honda Pilot in the parking lot of Dallas Matu Christian Church, which caters to the city’s Burmese population. He was the fifth Texas child to die after being left in a hot car so far this year, and…
This afternoon, it comes. The storm that will wash away the unfaithful and vindicate doomsday prophet Jim Schutze is slated to hit Dallas, bringing with it a torrent of water, hail, wind and tweets about Pete Delkus’ rolled up sleeves. “We’ll have what looks like a line of thunderstorms develop…
Every three hours, a satellite called the Global Precipitation Measurement Observatory records the rain and snow that falls, worldwide. This week, the big precipitation story is Texas. East Texas got 6 to 12 inches, with similar totals for eastern Oklahoma. Houston tallied the highest downfall, at nearly 15 inches. “The main culprit…
Travis Koscheski has driven dangerously close to a tornado before, decades ago when he rode through east Texas, but it wasn’t as bad as this one. The 50-year-old Walmart employee was sitting in his living room Saturday night, at the Landmark at Lake Village West apartment complex where he lives,…
In the big picture, you could say Rowlett was lucky. No one died when an EF3 tornado tore through the northeastern suburb the day after Christmas, unlike in neighboring Garland, where an EF4 twister from the same storm killed eight people as it tossed cars and trucks into the air…
Note: Gavin Cleaver, the Observer’s former web editor and acolyte in the Church of Pete Delkus, WFAA weather god, had to leave us and return to his home in England last year. We miss his funny accent, his terrible taste in barbecue, his adorable insistence that soccer is a spectator…
Monday, August 10 was one of the hottest days of the year. Government thermometers recorded a high temperature of 107 degrees. It was stupid, eyeball-searing heat any half-sentient creature — whose ancestors, after all, had the wherewithal to pass their genes along to subsequent generations — would presumably have the self-preserving…
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…
